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HYALOPHORA CECROPIA. 
PLATE XI. 
Plial. (Bombyx) cecropia, Linn. Cramer , Pap. Exot iv. t. 42, 
f. A. B. ; Fabr. Ent. Syst iii. 1. p. 408, No. 4 ; Drury's Exot . 
Ins., i. pi. 18, fig. 2 ; Abbot and Smith, Lepid. Georg., i. pi. 46. 
We have given figures of II. cecropia in all its 
stages, as a very characteristic example of the con- 
spicuous genus to which it belongs ; and they will 
afford, in connexion with similar details of several 
nearly related species, a very accurate notion of the 
metamorphoses of the Saturnim. It is one of the 
larger kinds, measuring upwards of half a foot 
between the tips of the wings. Antennas broadly 
pectinated, black ; head small and red, the neck 
white ; thorax clothed with reddish-brown hairs 
of considerable length ; abdomen with alternate 
bauds of white and orange-brown, the latter edged 
behind with black. The ground colour of the wings 
is dark reddish brown ; the anterior pair with the 
base orange-brown, that colour bounded exteriorly 
by a narrow whitish baud suddenly bent towards 
the anterior margin, but becoming obsolete be- 
fore reaching it; disk rusty brown, with a large 
white kidney-shaped spot, margined with black and 
tinged with reddish brown ; beyond this there is a 
broad transverse reddish orange band ; the extre- 
