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LEPIDOPTERA. 
lars are covered with coarse hairs, spreading out on all 
sides like the bristles of a bottle-brush, and growing in 
clusters or tufts from little warts regularly arranged in 
transverse rows on the surface of the body. They run 
very fast, and when handled roll themselves up almost 
into the shape of a ball. Many of them are very destruc- 
tive to vegetation, as, for example, the salt-marsh caterpil- 
lar, the yellow bear-caterpillar of our gardens, and the fall 
web-caterpillar. When about to transform, they creep into 
the chinks of walls and fences, or hide themselves under 
stones and fallen leaves, where they enclose themselves in 
rough oval cocoons, made of hairs plucked from their own 
bodies, interwoven with a few silken threads. The chrysalis 
is smooth, and not hairy, and its joints are movable. 
Some of the slender-bodied Arctians, with bristle-formed 
antennae, which are not distinctly feathered in either sex, 
and having the feelers slender, and the tongue longer than 
the others, come so near to the Lithosians that naturalists 
arrange them sometimes among the latter, and sometimes 
among the Arctians. They belong to 
Latreille’s genus Callimorpha* (meaning 
beautiful form), one species of which in- 
habits Massachusetts, and is called Cal- 
limorpha militaris (Fig. 1G5), the soldier- 
moth, in my Catalogue. Its fore wings 
expand about two inches, are white, al- 
most entirely bordered with brown, with 
an oblique band of the same color from 
the inner margin to the tip ; and the 
* The French naturalists, whom I have followed, include in this genus the Eu- 
ropean moths called //era, Dominula , Donna , Jacobaxc , &c. Closely allied to the 
//era, and still more so to the militaris , is a large and fine species, which inhabits 
the Southern States, and which I have named Callimorpha Carolina. It differs 
from the militaris in being .larger, measuring across the wings two inches and a 
quarter, or more, and in having the hind wings of a deep Indian-yellow or ochre 
color, with one or two black spots near the hind margin ; the abdomen also is 
ochre-yellow. It is possible that this may be the Clymene of Esper and Oclisen- 
heimer, or the Colima of Hiibner, whose works I have not seen. 
i'ig. 165. 
