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Spec. Char. Moth .— Wingless female. Length .75 of an inch, the ex- 
serted oviduct .25 of an inch more. Color light gray with a very 
slight olive tint, and irregularly mottled all over with black, the 
spots large above, but fine below ; the thorax nearly uniform black, 
the head grayish black, the clypeus black, antennse black, annulated 
with the ground color of the body; divisions between the segments 
of the abdomen pea green. The hind wings reach to the back part 
of the first abdominal segment, the fore wings to the middle of the 
same segment. Feet and legs are grayish black, joints annulated 
with gray. The exserted oviduct consists of two joints, the last third 
of the last joint having the hairs perpendicular to the joint. Head 
short, scarcely to be seen from above, rather wide between the eyes;: 
palpi very short. 
Chrysalis .—Length .55 of an inch besides the bristles. Dark brown, 
coarsely punctured, the divisions between the abdominal segments 
finely punctured; ending in a conical segment which is smooth at 
the end and tipped with two short, stout, divergent bristles. 
Nematocampa filamentaria, Gue.—The Strawberry Geometer. 
In June, or earlier in the southern part of the state, a wood colored 
measuring worm with two long fleshy filaments arising from the 
middle of the body, may be found feeding on the strawberry and cur¬ 
rant. The head is red with some spots of the same hue on the body. 
This curious worm produces a little pale ochre colored moth measur¬ 
ing about an inch across the wings with brown lines crossing the 
wings, and an outer border of dull brown that is continuous across 
both wings except the apical portion of the anterior pair. Thej^ are 
never sufficiently numerous as to cause much injury. 
Spec. Ghar. Moth .—Pale ochre, with brown veins and transverse 
lines, a brown inner line, much curved, an outer sinuate line, with 
a supplementary line just inside, touching the outer line on the sub¬ 
median vein and in the extradiscal space, and forming a large circle, 
one side of which touches the outer line. Beyond this line, the 
border of the wing is dull brown, with the apical region clear. Hind 
wings streaked transversely as on the fore wing, with the outer third 
brown, apex included. Expanse one inch.—Packard. 
Larva .—Body cylindrical, head large, with two unequal pairs of 
long, slender, fleshy filaments, situated on the third and fifth abdom¬ 
inal rings, the posterior pair shorter than the others, curled at the 
end and finely tuberculated. Head pale rust red, marbled with a still 
paler hue. Head full on each side of the median line, flattened in 
front. Half way between the metathoracic legs and the first pair of 
filaments are two sub-acute tubercles, which are rust red. When the 
four filaments are uncurled they are as long as from the head to the 
tubercles. The anterior pair of filaments are pale rust red beneath at 
base, brown above, but tipped with wffiite. A distinct dorsal line 
from the prothorax to the second pair of filaments; a pair of small 
tubercles next to the last segment, tipped with pale rust red. Body 
wood colored above and beneath ; thoracic rings greenish above, sue- 
