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the wings also, at least in one sex, is a white crescent, beyond 
which a white or pale red band crosses both wings. In addition to 
our two American species, this genus includes the East Indian 
Cynthia of Drury, the parent of the Arrindy silk-worm, noted for 
yielding a fabric of such durability that garments made from it 
outlast a person’s life time, and are handed down from parents to 
children, like other heir-looms in a family. These three insects 
also present as striking a resemblance to each other in their pre¬ 
paratory as in their perfect states. And these species being thus dis¬ 
posed of, the genus Saturnia will remain for those moths like 
Pavonia , which have large opake eye-like spots in the centre of 
the wings. 
34. Apple Sphinx, Sphinx Gordius, Cramer. (Lepidoptcra. Sphingidne.) 
The fore part of August, adhering when at rest to the under 
side of a twig, W'ith the forward half of its body held obliquely 
outward. A thick, cylindrical apple-green worm, 2.50 long, with 
a reddish brown horn projecting upward from the hind part of 
its back, and along each side seven oblique violet stripes margined 
on their hind side with white. Burying itself deep in the earth 
and producing a large strong narrow-winged moth the following 
May or June, its fore wings sooty brown varied with ash gray, 
with black streaks between the veins and a white dot near the 
middle, placed upon a long slender black line. Width 2.80 to 
3.50. See Silliman’s Journal, vol. xxxvi. p. 295. 
35. Blind-eyed Sphinx, Smerinthus exccecatus, Smith and Abbot. (Lepi¬ 
doptcra. Sphingidse.) 
Similar in size, habits and appearance to the preceding, but the 
worm with a rough granular skin of an apple green color, with 
tile horn bluish, the seven streaks along each side narrow, yel¬ 
lowish white, and two short pale lines before. The moth with 
rose red hind wings, having near their inner angle a black spot 
with a pale blue centre. Rare. See Silliman’s Journal, vol. 
xxxvi, p. 290. 
36. Large yellow butterfly, Papilio Turnus, Linn. (Lepidoptera. Pa- 
pilionid®.) 
In August, commonly seen resting day after aay upon a small 
mass of cobweb-like threads upon the upper surface of a particu- 
