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gray color marked on their outer side with a broad black stripe which contin¬ 
ues backward to the neck and embraces the eye. The spur-like tips of the 
feelers are white with a black line on the fore side. The spiral tongue when 
uncoiled is nearly as long as the antenn®, and these reach backward almost 
two-thirds the length of the wings, and are black alternated with white rings. 
I notice this species as it is the only one belonging to the genus 
which I have captured when in the act of depositing its er^gs. It 
passes these through a long tube or ovipositor which is half the 
length of the abdomen when extended, and is composed of three 
cylindrical joints of a pale color, which shut into each other like 
the joints of a telescope. Its eggs are quite small, oval and opake 
white, and those of the other species are probably similar. 
Another species larger than either of the preceding occurs in 
woods at the close of autumn, and is remarkable for having both 
pairs of wings relatively broader and the tips of the anterior ones 
much more obtuse and cut off obliquely so that the extreme apex 
forms an obtuse angle instead of an acute one as in the other 
species; and whilst the other species show no very distinct spots 
or marks upon their bodies we here upon the under side of the 
abdomen meet with a broad white stripe having a row of black 
spots along its middle. It may hence appropriately be named 
The belly-spotted ( C. ventrellus). Its expanded wings measure 0.80. It 
is of an ash gray color with a satin-like lustre, the fore wings varied with paler 
freckles and sprinkled with numerous black atoms which in places are partial¬ 
ly arranged in irregular transverse wavy lines, and on the apical edge is a row 
of equidistant black dots or short streaks placed on the intervals between the 
ends of the veins. The fringes and hind wings are pale lead colored or smoky. 
The abdomen is obscure yellowish, its apex ash-gray, and along each side is a 
row of glossy whitish spots, one upon the hind edge of each segment. Its un¬ 
der side is smoky, with a very broad white or pale dull yellow stripe along 
the middle, in which is a row of conspicuous black dots, one upon the hind 
edge of each segment, and on each side of these dots the edges of the segments 
have a glossy white reflection forming bands of this color. The wings are paler 
on their under sides and very glossy, the anterior ones whitish towards their 
tips and along the hind edge and regularly alternated with dark spots, whereof 
one is situated on the extreme tip, four others forward of it along the outer or 
costal edge and four slightly smaller ones upon the apical edge. 
Time only can show whether any of these near relatives of the 
palmer worm which we have now been considering are liable at 
times to become excessively numerous like that insect, and like 
an allied species, the cabbage moth, described in my First lieport. 
Should artificial interference to check their depredations become 
