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Apple, leaves. 
2 50 long, fringed low down on each side with tufts of blackish 
and gray hairs, and readily known by its having above on the 
fore part two bright scarlet velvety bands. The moth tawny red¬ 
dish brown, the inner angle of its fore wings notched as though 
eaten off by a worm, and commonly a pale cloud extending from 
this notch towards the tip, edged often on each of its sides by a 
zig-zag dark brown line. Width 1.50 or more. Appearing the 
latter part of May. See Harris’s Treatise, p. 293. 
31. Vkli.eda lappet moth, Planosa Velleda, Stoll. (Lepidoptera. Horn¬ 
by cidas.) 
A worm similar to the foregoing in its habits ana appearance, 
but of a faint pale green color with numerous irregular whitish 
lines resembling the streaks upon bark, and with a narrow black 
band above in the suture between the second and the third rings. 
The moth milk white with a large auburn brown spot on the mid¬ 
dle of its back, its fore wings entire, dusky gray, crossed by a 
wavy white line near the hind edge and two others forward of 
this near the middle; the males scarcely half as large as the 
females. Width 1.25 to 2.75. See Harris’s Treatise, p. 293. 
32. American vaporer moth, Orgyia leucostigma, Smith and Abbot. (Le¬ 
pidoptera. Arctiidse.) 
In winter, clusters of white eggs and a dead leaf adhering to a 
whitish cocoon, attached to the twigs or limbs. In midsummer a 
slender caterpillar with pale yellow hairs and tufts and black 
pencils, its head and two small protuberances on the hind part 
of the back bright coral red. The moth dull smoky or sooty brown, 
its fore wings with a white dot near the inner angle, a rhombic 
black spot on the outer edge near the tip, with an oblique black 
streak fbnvard of it, which is often prolonged to the inner margin 
and forms the hind edge of a broad ash gray band crossing the 
middle of the wing. Variable. Width 1.20 to 1.40. Females 
without wings, ash gray. See Transactions, 1855, p. 441. 
33. Ckcropia emperor moth, Attacus Cecropia, Linn. (Lepidoptera. Bom- 
bycidse.) 
In August, consuming the whole leaf and its veins, a large 
cylindrical pale green worm three or four inches long and as thick 
as one’s thumb, and having two row's of pale blue urojecting 
