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with its body and hind wings glossy white, its fore wings prettily 
speckled with numerous small rusty yellow spots which run together 
in many transverse bands, leaving a space at their tips more vacant; 
its width, 0.70. 
“ The moth here noticed may frequently be captured in our forests 
the fore part of July. Its larva resides under a thin cobweb covering 
which it constructs over the upper surface of the leaf towards its end, 
thereby drawing the sides somewhat together in a concave shape. As 
it merely eats off the end of the leaf, transversely, moving its quar¬ 
ters further back as it thus consumes successive portions of it, it is 
obviously liable to do no sensible amount of injury unless, like some 
of its kindred,.it has the habit at times of becoming excessively mul¬ 
tiplied. 
“ But as the history of so very few of these small moths is at pres¬ 
ent known, I avail myself of this opportunity to place this species 
on record, and I add such a description of it as will henceforth serve 
for its clear identification. 
“ The larva is grass-green throughout, or towards each end, and be¬ 
neath of a slightly paler apple green color, and along its back is a 
narrow stripe of deeper green produced by the internal viscera. 
“It tapers slightly posteriorly and less so anteriorly. On each of its 
rings small pimples are symmetrically placed, from each of which grows 
a short white hair; the head is round and slightly flattened and as thick 
as the neck into which it is sunk. If expelled from its retreat, it 
wriggles violently about, and drops itself very suddenly towards the 
ground and hangs suspended by means of a fine thread, till the dis¬ 
turbance ceases, whereupon it climbs up again to its former quarters. 
“The moth has fore wings which are twice as long as wide, their 
opposite sides parallel, their outer side very nearly straight with an 
inward curve at the ba,se ; their hind ends cut off somewhat obliquely 
and rounded like a slightly bent bow. Their surface is feebly glossy, 
and about equally occupied by straw yellow and tawny, or light 
brownish yellow, this latter color forming numerous small spots which 
are confluent into broken and irregular bands, the bands also running 
into each other. Two of these bands are more distinct and continu- 
dus, and when viewed vertically, are of the same tawny yellow color 
with the other marks, but when viewed obliquely they appear of a dark¬ 
er leaden or silvery brown hue, and are imperfectly edged wfith lines of 
a deeper brown color. One of these bands extends from the middle of 
the inner to the fore-part of the outer margin. The other is almost 
parallel with this, running from the hind margin near the inner 
angle to the outer margin, where it is usually thickened or forked. 
The space back of this band is slightly paler and less densely spotted, 
ts only marks frequently being a broad oblique stripe from near the 
niddle of the band to the tip, crossed bv a curved band running 
aearly parallel with the hind margin, both these marks having the 
»ame .leaden brown reflection with the two bands. Back of this on 
;he hind edge and base of the fringe is a smooth tawny yellow band. 
The head is rough from loose scales; the feelers projecting in front like 
i short conical beak, their apical joint being small but distinct; and 
;he spiral trunk is quite short, when uncoiled reaching but little 
beyond the tips of the feelers.” 
Dr. Asa Fitch, 4th New York Entomological report, 1858. 
