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their cocoons (Plate VI. Fig. 2), which are oval, thin, and 
hairy, like those of the other Arctians. The chrysalis is 
short, thick, and rather blunt, but not rounded at the hinder 
end, and not downy. The moths, which come out of the 
cocoons during the month of June, are of a very light ochre- 
yellow color ; the fore wings arc long, rather narrow, and 
almost pointed, are thickly and finely sprinkled with little 
brown dots, and have two oblique brownish streaks passing 
backwards from the front edge, with three rows of white 
semi-transparent spots parallel to the outer hind margin ; the 
hind wings are very thin, semi-transparent, and without spots ; 
and the shoulder-covers are edged within with light brown. 
They expand from one inch and seven eighths to two inches 
and a quarter or more. The wings are roofed when at 
rest ; the antennae are long, with a double, narrow, feathery 
edging, in the males, and a double row of short, slender teeth 
on the under side, in the females ; the feelers are longer 
than in the other Arctians, and not at all hairy ; and the 
tongue is short, but spirally curled. This kind of moth does 
not appear to have been described before, and it cannot be 
placed in any of the modern genera belonging to the Arcti- 
ans ; for this reason I pro- 
pose to call it Lophocam- 
p,a' lx Caryce (Fig. 175) ; the 
first name meaning crested 
caterpillar, and the second 
being the scientific name 
of the hickory, on which 
it lives. In England, the moths that come from caterpillars 
having long pencils and tufts on their backs are called tus- 
sock-moths ; we may name the one under consideration the 
hickory tussock-moth. 
In August and September I have seen on the black wal- 
nut, the butternut, the ash, and even on the oak, caterpillars 
exactly resembling the foregoing in shape, but differing in 
[ 21 Lophocampa is Hulesidota Walker. — Morris.] 
