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of the Wing. Terminal dots black, fine. Fringe gray. Hind wings 
lighter the outer border black, a white spot in the center of this bor¬ 
der reaching almost or quite across it. Fringe white. Head and 
thorax the color of the front wings. The anterior rings of the abdo- 
men and its tufts white, the rest of the abdomen dirty white. Eyes 
dark olive mottled with black. Antennae ferruginous with slight pu- 
bescence. The underside of the wings are rather lighter than above 
with the black spots showing, and a blackish outer border having a 
violaceous tinge. Sometimes a faded black spot each side of the head 
just back of the eyes. 
Heliothis (Pyrrhia) exprimens, Walker. 
At Carbondale and in the northern part of Union county, were 
found the past season, by the writer, light gray worms a little more 
than halt an inch long, eating into and disfiguring roses, making that 
wi 10 * 1 r WaS m t en ded as an object of beauty, only one of aversion. 
When found they had three narrow white lines between the dorsal 
line and the subdorsal, and a yellow line along the stigmata, and 
there were twelve black piliferous spote on each segment from which 
arise short bristles; head clear yellow, inclining to orange; tips of 
ieet black. These were the larvae of this species. 
After moulting, the second segment contains two triangular black 
spots, the bases toward the head, light between them ; the body a lit¬ 
tle darker, the anal segment whitish, but the segment preceding the 
anal with four black prominences. 
. fading, they eat more into the flower than on the outside, seem¬ 
ing to prefer the base of the petals. They were found the fore part of 
June, and by the 19th of the same month all had entered the ground 
to undergo their transformation. They began to hatch August 5th 
and continued to come out at intervals till the 31st of the month. 
Ihe moth expands a little more than an inch and a quarter; has the 
ore wings and thorax reddish yellow, the usual lines reddish brown 
dusxy beyond the t. p. line; the subterminal line quite wavy, the 
stigmata the. color of the wings, circled with reddish brown, a dark 
center to tne reniform; hind wings whitish, the veins and the outer 
border reddish brown, the latter dusky through its middle, a lio-ht 
space in the middle portion along the margin. 
Drasteria erechtea, Hub—The Clover Drasteria. 
, T j is 1 -L a S r ?y ish moth - with two black dots near the apex, and 
broad diffuse line on the fore wing. The larva, when full grown 
about an inch and a quarter long, has but two pairs of abdominal legs 
and loops the body in walking. The body is largest in the middle 
tapering slightly to the head, but much more toward the anal ex¬ 
tremity The body above is reddish brown, with many longitudinal 
darker lines and stripes. 
