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oblique white streaks margined with violet upon their upper sides, 
the head with a white stripe on each side. The pupa under 
ground, giving out the moth the following June, which hovers 
about flowers at dusk, resembling a humming bird in its motions; 
its fore wings measuring from 3.20 to 4.50 when spread; half 
their surface occupied by a broad dark brown band extending 
from their inner margin to the tip, in which are about five slender 
oblique coal-black streaks; the space forward of this band pale 
reddish gray or ashy clouded with hoary white, and having near 
the middle a blackish crescent crossed by a long very slender 
black line; its abdomen gray with a black stripe along the middle, 
and the sides black with a row of white spots. 
The Cecropia emperor moth, No. 33, a large pea green worm 
with two rows of small yellow prickles on the back and blue 
ones on the sides, is occasionally met with on the plum. 
66. Unicorn Prominent, Notodonta unicornis, Smith and Abbot. (Lepi- 
doptera. Notodontid. 
In August and September, a worm eating a notch in the side of 
the leaf, often of the exact length of its body, and placing itself 
in this notch, with the humps of its back resembling the teeth 
along the edge of the leaf, eventually consuming all the leaf but 
a small portion of its base; the worm brown like a faded leaf, 
with its second and third rings leaf green, its head large, and on 
top of the fourth ring a long horn-like protuberance; growing to 
1.25 in length; forming a cocoon on the ground under fallen 
leaves; the moth appearing in July; its fore wings light brown 
with patches of greenish white and many dark brown lines, 
the hind margin white and near the inner angle a small white 
and two black dashes. Width 1.25 to 1.50. See Harris’s 
Treatise, p. 327. 
Ct. Waved tussock motii, Trichetra opercularis, Smith and Abbot. Lepi- 
doptera. Arctiidte.) 
A caterpillar with brownish evenly shorn hairs rising to a ridge 
“long the middle of the back and sloped off on each side like the 
loot of a house; making a tough oval cocoon in September, 
which is fastened to the side of a twig, its top opening by a flat 
