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cidian insects of a deep metallic green and black color, may be 
found issuing from this orifice, being doubtlessly hatched from 
small maggots which have subsisted upon the chrysalis. Why 
the orifice is so much larger than is necessary for their exit I 
am at a loss to conjecture. These same insects may also be seen 
at the same time, walking around upon the exterior surface of 
the nests and the limbs and leaves around it. They appear to 
pertain to the genus Cleonymus of Latreille, as this genus is re¬ 
stricted and defined by Westwood (Synopsis of British Genera, 
p. 72) and by Brulle (St. Fargeau’s Hymenopteres, vol. iv. p. 
594), and this species may appropriately be named 
The Lackey-moth Cleonymus ( C. Clisiocampa'). The males are about 
0.09 in length to the tip of the abdomen and of the wings, and the females 0.11. 
The head and thorax are somewhat rough from numerous minute elevated 
points giving their surface a shagreencd appearance. They vary in color from 
dull metallic green to black, being the former color commonly in the males, 
the latter in the females, with the face green in both sexes and sometimes with 
a golden yellow reflection. The abdomen is smooth and highly polished, black 
or purplish black, immaculate in the females, in the males with a large pal 
yellowish spot near the base above and beneath, varying in its size in different 
individuals, the sutures also being more or less marked with the same color 
The antennae are black or dark brown, their long basal joint pale dull yellow, 
which is also the color of the legs the tips of the feet being black, and in tho 
female the thighs are more or less dusky or brown. The wings appear whitish 
when closed and carried flat upon the back as they are when the insect is walk¬ 
ing. When spread they are hyaline and glassy, their whole surface covered 
with minute punctures, each bearing a fine short hair. Tho stigma or short 
thick branch at the end of the rib-vein is slightly enlarged and triangular at 
its apex, the angle which is towards the outer margin being prolonged into an 
acute point, this stigmal branch being hereby curved on its outer and straight 
on its inner side. The thickened rib-vein is confluent with the outer margin 
about three times the length of the stigmal branch before giving off this branch. 
The antennae are eleven jointed, the joints beyond the first compacted and 
forming an elongated club, the third and fourth joints being much smaller than 
the others, the third but half the size of the fourth and often difficult to per¬ 
ceive. The second joint is longer than the fifth and following ones. The last 
joint is double the preceding. The male is more slender than the other sex 
and has the abdomen oval and convex above, its segments faintly marked by 
slender transverse impressed lines, the fifth segment being longer than the 
fourth. In the female the abdomen is broader than the thorax and has an 
ovate form tapering to an acute point. It is flattened above and strongly pro¬ 
tuberant in the middle beneath. 
In the old nests of these caterpillars, in August, the larva of 
a moth, probably of the family Tineidje, is common. It is a slen¬ 
der sixteen-footed soft fleshy worm over a third of an inch long) 
