THE HAG-MOTH. 
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the tip is bare. The antennae of the female are thread-like 
and not fringed. The wings expand from one inch to one 
inch and one eighth. The caterpillar figured by Mr. Abbot* 
is oblong oval, striped with purple and yellow, with twelve 
fleshy horns, of an orange color, on the sides of its back, 
namely, six on the fore part, two on the middle, and four 
on the hind part of the body. Mr. Abbot says that it eats 
the leaves of the dogwood ( Cornus Florida), oak, and of 
other trees ; that it makes its cocoon in September, and 
that the moth comes out in July. 
A still more extraordinary slug-caterpillar (Fig. 208), 
having a very remote resemblance to the last, 
has been found here on forest-trees, and oc- 
casionally in considerable numbers on cherry- 
trees and apple-trees, from July to Septem- 
ber. It is of a dark brown color, and is covered with a 
short velvet-like down ; its body is almost oblong square, 
hut the sides of the rings extend horizontally in the form 
of flattened teeth ; three of these teeth on each side, that 
is, one on the fore part, the middle, and the hind part of 
the body, are much longer than the others, and are curved 
backwards at the end. When fully grown, the caterpillar 
measures nearly an inch in length. It does not bear con- 
finement well, and often dies before completing its trans- 
formations. Dr. Melsheimer, to whom I am indebted for 
one of the moths, informs me that the caterpillar eats the 
leaves of the wild cherry, as well as those of the white and 
red oak, that it makes its cocoon (Fig. 
209) about the middle of September, 
changes to a chrysalis the following April, 
and that the moth appears in about eight 
weeks afterwards. The name given to 
this insect by Sir J. E. Smith f is pithe- 
cium, the meaning of which is a shriv- 
elled and monkey-faced old woman, bestowed upon it prob- 
* Insects of Georgia, p. 145, pi. 73. f Ibid., p. 147, pi. 74. 
Fig. 208. 
