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band. In the middle of each fore wing is a characteristic round white 
spot. Expands, male an inch and three quarters ; female two inches 
and a half and more. The larva is black with four narrow ochre yel¬ 
low stripes along the back and two on each side ; the whole body with 
tubercles, the second segment containing two prominent ones; feeds 
mainly on oak. 
Oastropacha, (Tolype) valleda, Stoll.—The Valleda Lappet Moth. 
In the summer of 1867, Messrs Perkins and Coneydon, of Onarga* 
sent, two specimens of this caterpillar to the editors of the 
Prarie Farmer, with a request for information as to what they 
were and whether they were injurious or not, stating that they 
were found an apple trees, that they had been exhibited at a meet¬ 
ing of the horticultural society of that place, but no one could identify 
them. The editor of the entomological column after giving the 
name states that they never become numerous enough to be greatly 
injurious. There is quite a difference in the size of the sexes of this 
species, the males measuring from an inch and a half to an inch and 
three quarters, while the females measure two and three quarter inch¬ 
es. . The fore wings are gray, crossed by two double slightly wavy 
white.lines at the end of the first and second thirds of the length of 
the wing, and a single line of the same near the outer margin. The 
hind wings have only the outer line. The body is white with a 
brown dorsal.line on the thorax, and the back of the abdomen dark 
grey; the hairs on the body are rather longer than in the most moths. 
The larva is hairy and is liable to be mistaken for an excrescence on 
the bark of the apple tree on which it feeds. 
Clisiocampa Americana, Harris.—The American Lackey Moth. 
The larvae of this, the American Tent Caterpillar, is well known as 
one of the worst enemies to the orchard where they are allowed unmo¬ 
lested to fill the trees with their tent-like webs and quietly strip them 
of their foliage. There, is scarcely a year that they do not appear in 
apple and some other, kinds of trees, and some times in such numbers 
as to prove a serious injury to the trees unless measures are taken to 
destroy them. It is fortunate however that they may easily be des¬ 
troyed, for the habit they have of returning each night from feeding 
to the nest renders their destruction in the morning easy. All that 
is necessary to accomplish this is a forked stick with which the whole 
nest may be swabbed out and the worms can be crushed under the 
foot. 
The eggs of this species are deposited in a circle round a small twig 
the latter part, of June or the fore part of July, where they remain 
till the following spring, protected from the influences of the weather 
by a coating of a gummy substance. It has been found that the 
larva? develon in the eggs before the cold fall weather and remain dor¬ 
mant through the winter, ready to come out with the first appear¬ 
ance of the leaves. 
