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LEPIDOPTERA. 
w ere it not for its regular shape, it might, when at rest, 
very easily be mistaken for a dry, brown, and crumpled 
leaf. The feelers are somewhat prominent, like a short 
beak ; the edges of the under wings are very much notched, 
as are the hinder and inner edges of the fore Avings, and 
these notches are white ; its general color is a red-hr own ; 
behind the middle of each of the Avings is a pale band, 
edged AAdth zigzag dark broA\m lines, and there are also tA\'o 
or three short irregular broA\m lines running backAvards from 
the front edge of the fore A\dngs, besides a minute pale cres¬ 
cent, edged A\dth dark broAAui, near the middle of the same. 
In the females the pale bands and dark lines are sometimes 
Avanting, the Avings being almost entirely of a red-broA\m 
color. It expands from one inch and a half to nearly tAAm 
inches. Mr. Abbot, Avdio has figured it, states that the 
caterpillar lives on the oak and the ash, that it spun itself 
up in May among the leaves in a gray-broAvn cocoon, in 
AA'liich the chrysalis Avas enveloped AAUth a pale brown poAV- 
der, and that the moth came out in February. My speci¬ 
mens, on the contrary, as aboA^e stated, AA^ere found on 
apple-trees, made their cocoons in the autumn, and ap¬ 
peared m the Avinged form in the early part of the folloAAung 
summer. 
The foregoing is the only American lappet-moth, AA’ith 
notched AA’ings, AA’hich 
Fig. 177. 
IS knoAA'ii to me ; but 
we haA^e another much 
larger one, Avith en- 
tire AA’ings. It is the 
Velleda (Fig. 177) of 
Stoll, so named after 
a celebrated German 
female, commemorated by the ancient historian Tacitus. 
This moth has a A^ery large, thick, and Avoolly body, and 
is of a AA’hite color, variegated or clouded AAUth blue-gray. 
On the fore wings are tAvo broad dark gray bands, inter- 
