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head, and a rather larger pair over the tail. The 
individual figured by Madame Merian (Surm. Ins. 
pi. 28) has the lateral appendages rounded at the 
extremity, and the body is mottled. She affirms that 
it is venomous, and that the parts of the body which 
it touches become stiff and inflamed ; a statement 
which the history already given of the larva of Dora- 
ticampa tends directly to confirm. The caterpillar of 
E. Hipparchia (according to .Stoll) is of a uniform 
light brown colour ; when it changes to a chrysalis 
the lateral flaps are folded round it. The moth is 
reddish-brown, the upper wings variegated with a 
lighter colour, each having a round white spot be- 
yond the middle and a narrow curved band of the 
same colour not far from the anterior margin. 
The moth here figured, E. Pithecium^ has the 
upper wings bluish, with transverse waved bands of 
yellowish-brown, and more or less clouded with 
dusky : hinder wings entirely brown, with a narrow 
yellow line within the fringe ; body of the female 
rather thick, thorax and abdomen bluish, the former 
brown on the side, and the latter with brown rings. 
The body of the male is wholly light brown with 
clouds of a deeper colour, the abdomen tufted at the 
apex. The female expands an inch and three lines, 
the male somewhat less. 
The caterpillar (Plate XXI. fig. 3) is wholly 
brown, the head alone being yellow. It feeds on 
persimmon and the various kinds of oaks. Abbot 
states that it is found both in Georgia and Virginia, 
but it is very rare. His specimen spun on the lOth 
