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threads, and when jarred dropping and hanging in the air sus¬ 
pended by a thread; a pale yellowish green worm, having a dusky 
or blackish stripe along each side of the back edged on its upper 
side by a narrower whitish stripe, and with a dusky line on the 
middle of the back. The pupa remaining in the same mass of 
leaves occupied by the worm, and giving out the moth in about 
ten days. The moth ash-gray, with its fore wings sprinkled with 
black atoms, and having four black dots near their middle and 
six or seven smaller ones around their hind edge. Width 0.65. 
See Transactions, 1855, p. 453. 
43. Tawny-striped Palmer worm, Chatochihis Malifuliellus, Fitch, 
The fore part of July, residing in a folded worm eaten leaf; a 
slender pale yellowish worm with a tawny yellow stripe along each 
side of its back, this stripe having a white stripe upon its lower 
as well as its upper side, and a pale yellow head. The moth like 
the preceding, but the fore wings not sprinkled with black atoms, 
and having, in addition to the dots of the common palmer worm 
moth, a tawny yellow band toward the tips of the wings, edged 
with whitish on its fore side. See Transactions, 1855, p. 463. 
44. Comrade Palmer worm, Chatochilus contubemalellus, Fitch. 
Appearing in company with the Palmer w r orm, and closely 
resembling it, but having the head and neck shining black instead 
of light yellow. The moth also sprinkled and dotted like that 
of the Palmer worm, but the ground color of the fore wings dark 
brown on their inner and white on their outer half. See Trans. 
1855, 464. 
45. Eye-spotted bud moth, Spilonota oculana, Harris. (Lepidoptera. Tor- 
tricidce.) 
In May and June, with silken threads fastening the young leaves 
together as they are starting from the buds, and living within and 
feeding upon them; a small pale dull brownish w T orm with shining 
elevated dots each giving out a fine hair, its head, neck and a spot 
on the top of the eighth ring dark brown. Changing to a pupa 
in the same nest, from which the fore part of July comes a small 
moth of a dark ash-gray color, its fore w'ings whitish in the middle, 
mottled with dark gray, the tips light brown with four little black 
