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APPENDIX. 
.Nearly in tlie centre of the wing is a milk-white dot placed 
upon the mid-vein. This dot is surrounded more or less by 
a dusky cloud, and this duskiness is frequently extended for¬ 
ward upon the mid-vein to its base, forming a faint darker 
streak alono; the middle of the wino;. Contiomous to this 
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dot on its outer side may be discerned a roundish spot of a 
slightly paler yellow color than the ground, and a very short 
distance forward of this is a similar spot, but smaller, both 
these spots often showing a more tarnished centre. On the 
■ hind part of the wing the veins are marked by slender, whit¬ 
ish lines, and between their tips on the hind edge of the 
wins is a row of minute black dots. The hind winss are 
smoky brown, with a purplish gloss, and are nearly trans¬ 
parent, with the veins blackish. The fringe of both pairs 
of wings is pale yellowish, with a dusky band on the middle. 
On the under side, the wings are much more glossy and 
paler, opalescent whitish inwardly, and smoky gray toward 
their outer and hind sides, where they are also freckled 
with blackish atoms. The smoky color on the hind wings 
has on its anterior edge a row of short blackish lines, one 
on each of the veins, and in a line with them on the fore 
wings is a faint dusky band, becoming more distinct toward 
its outer end, or sometimes only represented by a dusky dot 
on the outer margin forward of the tips. The veins are 
whitish, and also the hind edge, on which is a row of black 
dots placed between the tips of the veins. The hind wings 
have also a blackish crescent-shaped spot a little forward of 
their centre. The abdomen or hind body is smoky gray above, 
and on its under side ash-gray, freckled with black scales, 
and usually showing a row of black dots along each side.” * 
The Larva, or “ army-worm,” varies considerably in 
color and size, owing to age and locality, but its charac¬ 
teristic markings are so constant, as to make it readily 
distinguished. As it appeared in New Hampshire and 
Massachusetts, it varied in length from less than one 
inch to one and three quarters, was of a dark gray, with 
three narrow yellowish stripes above, and a broader one of 
the same color or slightly darker on each side, thinly clothed 
with short hairs, Avhich were longer and somewhat thicker 
on and about the head, the latter of a polished honey-yellow, 
with a net-work of fine dark brown lines, and a black line 
on the front like 'the letter V reversed. The following 
* Dr. Asa Fitch, m “ The Country Gentleman,” Vol. XVIII. p. 66. 
