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HYALOPHORA CECROPIA. 
PLATE XI. 
Phal. (Bombyx) cccropia, Linn. Cramer., Pap. Exot.., iv. t. 42, 
f. A. B, ; Fabr. Ent. Syst., iii. 1. p. 408, No. 4 ; Drurfs Exot 
Ins., i. pi. 18, fig. 2 ; Ahbot and Smith, Lepid. Georg,, i. pi. 46. 
We have given figures of H. cecropia in all its 
stages, as a very characteristic example of the con- 
spicuous genus to Avhich it helongs ; and they will 
atford, in connexion with similar details of several 
nearly related species, a very accurate notion of the 
metamorphoses of the Saturniag. It is one of the 
larger kinds, measuring upwards of half a foot 
between the tips of the wings. AntennaB broadly 
pectinated, black; head small and red, the neck 
white; thorax clothed with reddish-brown hairs 
of considerable length ; abdomen with alternate 
bands of white and orange-brown, the latter edged 
behind with black. The ground colour of the wings 
is dark reddish brown ; the anterior pair with the 
base orange-brown, that colour bounded exteriorly 
by a narrow whitish band suddenly bent towardig 
the anterior margin, but becoming obsolete be- 
fore reaching it ; disk rusty brown, with a large 
white kidney-shaped spot, margined with black and 
tinged with reddish-brown ; beyond this there is a 
broad transverse reddish orange band ; the extre- 
