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ment the largest; on each side of each segment are three small 
points arranged in the form of a triangle; on top of segment 8 is a 
projection, which is sometimes of a redder color than the body; 
there is sometimes a black oblique dash on each side of segment 
11; venter light-colored, sometimes tinged with red, marked with a 
row of black spots, one spot to each segment; just above the legs 
is a short fringe; the two anterior pairs of abdominal legs are much 
smaller than the two posterior pairs; head reddish, or grayish-ash, 
sometimes bordered on the top and sides with black, bilobed on top, 
with a small reddish-brown point on each lobe; length, If inches. 
Feeds on Apple. May to July. Spins a cocoon. (D. W. Coquil- 
lett.) 
3— Neonympha eurytris. —Body light gray, mottled with dark gray, 
and thickly covered with minute gray points; a dark dorsal stripe; 
an indistinct dark-colored undulating sub-dorsal line; below the 
spiracles is a light-colored fold; spiracles black; venter greenish- 
gray, marked with a dark line in the middle; on the posterior part 
of the last segment are two divergent blunt-pointed projections, con- 
colorous with the body; head much wider than segment 1, concolor- 
ous with the body, the upper angles produced into a blunt point; 
length f-inch. Feeds on grass. Found throughout the year. Sus¬ 
pends itself by the hind feet. (D. W. Coquillett.) 
4— Hypropepia fucosa. — Body dark reddish-brown or brownish- 
black : a yellow dorsal line; a stigmatal and indistinct sub-dorsal 
yelknv line; sub-dorsal space mottled with yellow; warts black, and 
from each proceeds one or two stiff black bristles; head brownish- 
black, with a few short whitish hairs on the face; length f-inch. 
Feeds upon the moss, etc., which grows upon the bark of Oak trees. 
May to September. Spins a cocoon. (D. W. Coquillett.) 
5— Agrotis c-nigrum. —Body mottled brownish or ashen, sometimes 
tinged with green; a dorsal and sub-dorsal light-colored line, the 
latter sometimes wanting; below the spiracles is a light-colored 
stripe; on the dorsal space is a row of oblique black spots, most 
distinct on the posterior part of the body, one spot to each seg¬ 
ment ; the two plates on top of each segment are sometimes con¬ 
nected with each other, forming a semi-circle; head yellowish-brown, 
marked with two curved black spots on the face, and with two black 
dashes on each side of the head; length If inches. Feeds on grass. 
Found throughout the year. Enters the earth. (D. W. Coquillett.) 
6— Eudamus proteus. —Dorsal space gray, dottted with black, and 
yellowish, arranged in transverse rows; sub-dorsal space gray, the 
upper half dotted with black; a fine dark-colored dorsal line; a 
bright yellow sub-dorsal stripe, dilated on segment 12; a pale green 
stigmatal line; cervical shield lustrous black; anal plate yellow, 
the middle greenish; venter pale green; head large, circular, slightly 
depressed on top, brown, with a yellow spot on each side of the 
mouth, narrowing upward, and fading into the light brown of the 
upper part of the face ; length 14 inches. Feeds on Phaseolus per- 
ennis and Cliteria mariana. (A. W. Chapman.) 
