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tion. It is about an inch and a half long when full grown, and varies 
in color from pale, creamy white to dark brown, many, when half 
grown, being foxy red, with darker extremities. The body tapers 
slightly from the middle to either end, and the hairs are from trans¬ 
verse rows of warts like the preceding. 
Spec. Char. Larva .—In all the varieties the color of the under side 
of the body is dark, and there is sometimes a black line along the 
sides of the body, more or less interrupted, and a transverse lfne of 
the same color, more or less distinct, between the segments. Head and 
feet, ochre yellow ; the head two-thirds as large as the middle seg¬ 
ments. 
Moth .—Expanse of wings from an inch and a half to nearly 
- two inches. Wings white, with a black dot in the middle of the 
fore wings, and two on the hind wings, one in the middle and the 
other at the anal angle. In some specimens the wings may be wholly 
white, or there may be two or three black dots on each wing. The 
dots show plainer on the under side. The body is white, with a row 
of black dots on the back of the abdomen—another, each side, and an 
orange stripe between. Eyes, black; antennae, blackish, slightly 
pectinate. Front thighs, orange. 
Remedies —The same remarks that were made in regard to the pre¬ 
ceding species apply equally well to this. 
Ecpantheria scribonia, Stoll.—The Great Leopard Moth. 
As the caterpillar of this species, for which Prof. Riley has sugges¬ 
ted the very appropriate name, Large Black Bear, is occasionally 
found in the fall of the year, I will include a brief history of it here, 
drawing from the fourth Missouri report for the characteristics of the 
larva. It is “black, and so thickly covered with jet black spines, as 
to almost hide a series of roughened warts on each joint, from which 
the spines spring. When disturbed, it curls itself up, and then the 
sutures of the joints are seen to be reddish brown, in strong contrast 
with the rest of the body.” The worm is said to feed mostly at night, 
on a species of wild sunflower, plantain, willows and black locust. It 
passes the winter in the larva state, very much like the Hedgehog 
caterpillar, feeds a few days in spring and then changes to a chrysalis 
in a loose cocoon, to come out in about two weeks in the moth state. 
Usually there is only one brood, but sometimes tin caterpillar goes 
through its transformations and produces the perfect insect in the fall. 
The perfect insect is the largest and most beautiful of the Arctians; 
the wings ot the female expanding nearly three and a half inches. 
The wings and thorax are white, the fore wings and thorax covered 
rather thickly with white colored black spots of various shapes, 
hence the name Leopard Moth seems very appropriate. The hind 
wings have a terminal border of black spots, with two or three discal 
spots of the same. Abdomen steel blue, with a dorsal and lateral line 
of orange. The male is smaller, the spots duller, and the wings more 
pointed. 
