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CHERRY. LEAVES. 
85. IIag moth, Limacodes pitheciwm, Smith and Abbot. (Lopidoptcra. Arc 
tiidsc.) 
In August and Septemoer, a flattened dark brown singular 
looking worm of an oblong and nearly square form, the sides of 
its body prolonged outwards into eleven tooth-like processes, the 
three middle ones of which are longer with their ends curved 
backward, growing to nearly an inch in length, its pupa state 
passed in a small cocoon fastened to a limb; the moth dusky 
brown, its fore wings varied with pale yellowish brown, and 
crossed by a narrow wavy curved band of this color, edged on its 
hind side near the outer margin with dark brown, and having near 
the centre a light brown soot. Width 0.95 to 1.25. See Harris’s 
Treatise, p. 324. 
80. Dry leaf measure-worm, Geometral siccifolia, new species. (Lcpidop. 
tcra. Gcometridse.) 
A measure worm in many respects like the preceding, but more 
narrow and flattened and having a marked resemblance to a dry 
withered leaf or the brown scraggy fragment of a dead twig, may 
frequently be met with some years, in August and September, most 
commonly upon choke cherry bushes. It is 0.80 long and a dull 
dark umber brown color, sometimes of a paler yellowish shade, 
and with a blackish streak along the middle of its back. The 
three middle segments are nearly double the width of the others, 
their sides being prolonged obliquely forwards and upwards in 
thin flat triangular projections having their tips blunt or slightly 
notched, and commonly ending in two little sharp teeth. The 
next segment back of these is also slightly prolonged outwards. 
On the top of the segment next to the last are two little horns 
projecting upward. Adhering to a twig with its four hind feet, it 
remains motionless with its body slightly bent and turned upward, 
and if knocked to the ground it lies perfectly still. No one from 
its appearance, would suspect it to be anything possessed of life. 
The latter part of September it draws two or three leaves together 
tieing them with silken threads, and spins its cocoon within them; 
but I have not yet succeeded in obtaining the moth from these 
cocoons. 
