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PINK. LKAVE3. 
most ones more elevated, conical and ending in two or three 
minute prickles, those on the second and third rings always 
much longer, forming little horns varying from 0.10 to 0.25 in 
length, wrinkled and of a straw yellow color, its head polished 
pale lemon yellow with three black stripes, the two outer ones 
shorter, its hind end with a polished triangular black or blue- 
black spot in which are several elevated yellowish white dots, 
and a similar spot on the outer face of each of the hind legs; 
passing its pupa state a few inches under the ground, and the 
following June giving out a fine large moth, measuring from 
3.75 to five inches across its wings, which are of a bright deep 
buff yellow color sprinkled with blackish dots resembling grains 
of gunpowder burnt under the skin, their basal fourth part red¬ 
dish purple, varied with yellow, and a round central spot and 
beyond this a wavy scalloped band of the same color, that on 
the fore wings extending from the middle of the inner margin 
straight to the tip, these wings sometimes wholly reddish pur¬ 
ple with only a large yellow spot on their outer margin from 
the middle to the tip, and a yellow cloud opposite it on the 
inner side. 
Dr. Harris mentions this insect as inhabiting the button wood 
or sycamore only, but it is certainly the pine on which it is 
almost invariably found, in the northern states. At the south 
Abbot says it feeds on the button wood, oak, liquidamber and 
pine. It is remarkable that trees so widely different in their 
nature should be relished by this worm. 
272. NipnoN butterfly, Thccla Niphon, Hubner. (Lepidoptcra. Lycenidso.) 
[Plate iii, fig. 6.] 
Feeding upon the leaves in summer, a flattened oval worm, 
0.75 long when full grown, of the same deep green color as the 
leaves, with a light yellow stripe along the middle of its back 
and a white one on each side and a brown head; changing to 
a short thick grayish pupa with two rows of small blackish 
spots, and outside of these a row of more conspicuous rust-red 
ones, which is attached by its tail and by a thread around its 
middle in form of a loop; giving out a smallish butterfly which 
comes abroad in April and the fore part of May, 1.00 to 1.15 in 
