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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 
HICKORY. LEAVES. 
face snow-white crossed by two black bands, the outer raised lines 
dotted with white in these bands: the thorax black, tawny yellow 
on each side beyond the raised lines; neck white with a row of 
blackish dots upon each side; wing covers smoky-brown, their 
veins dotted with black in places, their basal edge, an oblique 
band and a spot on the middle of the outer margin white, their 
membranous tips white and somewhat hyaline, with a brown band 
across the transverse veinlets and the hind margin blackish inter¬ 
rupted by the snow-white tips of the veins; wings black and 
transparent; under side yellowish-white with two blackish bands 
on each of the four forward shanks. Length of the male 0.18. 
This was taken in company with the preceding, the middle of 
September. It may possibly be a variety of the F'.ata nava of 
Say, much more colored with black than in the specimens from 
which his description was drawn. 
1.79* Cloudy-tipped Cixius, Oixius cohzj)eum> new species. 
A small four-winged fly of a coal-black color with clear trans- 
parent wings having a large smoky-brown cloud on their tips; 
wing covers transparent, their veins dotted with black, the dots 
on the outer margin larger; an irregular and somewhat broken 
band of a smoky brown color extending across forward of the 
middle and a broader one beyond the middle, having a black spot 
or stigma on the anterior corner of its outer end; between these 
bands a smoky brown spot on the inner and a smaller one nearly 
opposite it on the outer margin; thorax with three raised lines; 
face black with the raised lines brown; legs dull whitish. Length 
0.22. This also is a rare species. 
Amyot’s Otiocerus, No. 110. In each of the few instances in 
which I have met with this insect it has occurred uoon walnut 
bushes. 
The Large green tree bug No. 99, is a common species upon 
hickory as well as ou several other trees. 
3. Eating the Leaves. 
ISO. Luna moth, Mias Luna, Linn. (Lepidoptora. Bombycidffi ) 
In August, a large thick-bodied worm three inches long or more, 
of an apple-green color and its under side of a deeper or ea 
