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Grapta milberti, Goclt. 
Has a grayish appearance at first sight, though the body is really 
black, the gray appearance being caused by fine white dots and 
hairs with which it is thickly covered; each segment, excepting the 
second, has a transverse row of black branching spines; on the 
third and fourth segments four; fifth segment six; the remainder 
to terminal, seven; terminal, two pairs, one pair behind the other; 
an interrupted line of gamboge yellow along the side, and below 
this near the feet one of a greenish yellow color. Head black, 
finely sprinkled with minute white dots and covered with whitish 
hairs; underside greenish and covered with white dots; a broad 
black stripe extends over the anterior segments. Feet polished black, 
pro-legs green. Feeds on the common Nettles (Urticce). 
Grapta progne, Fabr. 
Color gray, about 1] inches in length; wrinkled transversely 
between the segments, the base of the wrinkles being black and the 
summit whitish; a whitish band on the anterior part of each seg¬ 
ment ; this band is crossed on each side by an oblique black spot, 
a tawny yellow spot on each segment immediately above the stig- 
matal line and a smaller one of the same color below, from each of 
which issue spines; a row of white branching spines tipped with 
black on each side of the body. Head whitish, sprinkled with black 
dots and more or less thickly covered with uneven short white hairs; 
legs and pro-legs black on the outer sides, dull pale reddish on the 
inner; under side whitish mottled with brownish. 
Feeds upon American Elm, Cultivated and Wild Currant and Wild 
Gooseberry ( Kibes rotundifolice). 
Grapta J- Album, Bd. 
This larva is but little known excepting that it feeds on the Wil¬ 
low ; the butterflies appearing late in the fall and early in the sprng. 
Vanessa antiopa, Linn. 
The full grown larva measures from 1J to 2 inches in length. 
Black, thickly sprinkled with, minute white dots, from each of which 
proceeds a fine whitish hair; a row of eight dark brick-red spots on 
the back, with two faint blackish dots on each segment, and a 
transverse row of black branching spines, four each, on second and 
third segments, six on fourth and fifth, seven each from sixth to 
twelfth, two pairs on the terminal, one pair behind the other. 
Under side the same color as the upper, with fewer dots and hairs; 
feet black, pro-legs dull red with two small dots and a few whitish 
hairs on the outside of each; anal legs black tipped with red; head 
strongly bilobed, black, and rough with projecting tubercles. 
This species is two-brooded, and the caterpillars may be found 
in great numbers feeding together early in June, on Poplar, Wil¬ 
low and Elm, though the Willow seems to be preferred. 
