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ash and wild cherry; they also feed upon sassafras, 

 tulip tree, sweet gum, spice bush, maple, plum, pop- 

 lar, Azalea, Cephalanthus, snowdrop tree, barberry, 

 birch, bayberry, and lilac. The cocoon is usually en- 

 veloped by a leaf, the petiole of which is fastened to 

 the branch with a silken band. The cocoon is open at 

 one end to allow the escape of the imago. (3, IV., 

 121). 



Callosantia {Attacus) angulifera Walk. — A single 

 specimen of this rare insect was bred from what I had 

 supposed to be a cocoon of Promethea, 



Platysamia {Attictis) Cecropia Linn.—" The ground- 

 color of the wings is a grizzled dusky brown, with 

 the hinder margins clay-colored ; near the mid- 

 dle of each of the wings there is an opaque kid- 

 ney shaped dull red spot, having a white centre and 

 a narrow black edging ; and beyond the spot a wavy 

 dull red band, bordered internally with white ; the 

 fore wings, next to the shoulders, are dull red, with a 

 curved white band ; and near the tips of the same is 

 an eye-like black spot, within a bluish-white crescent.' 

 {2. 385). The cocoons are oblong oval, fastened by 

 one side to a twig, and open at one end. They have 

 been found on the following plants, upon most of 

 which the larva: probably feed : apple, pear, cherry 

 current, barberry, hazel, plum, hickory, blackberry 

 elderberry, elm, lilac, red-root, maple, willow, and 

 honey locust. (3, IV., 103). 



Serioicaria {Bombyx) mori Linn, is the Chinese or 

 Mulberry silkworm, from the cocoons of which most 

 of the silk of commerce is made. (3, IV., 75 ; 20,214) 



NOCTUID/E OR NOCTU/EMTTE {OwUt-inoths). 

 The Owlet-moths " are characterized by their thicl 



