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Rh stripes margined on the under side with black. The central part of the back is dark, and the pointed projection brownish-red. It feeds on the dog-wood (Cornus Florida, Linn.), oak, and other trees. It was observed by Abbot to make its web on the 14th of September, and the moth appeared July 22. He states that it is not common, though found in Virginia as well as Georgia. It occurs also in Surinam, and probably in many other parts of America.

LIMACODES MICILIA.

PLATE XXII. Fig. 2. Cramer, Pap. Exot., pl. 228, fig. G. of the wings nearly two inches. Wings brilliant blue; the superior pair with a small white transparent streak towards the base, a large angular transverse white space in the middle, and an oval spot of the same description near the apex; under wings having a broad white stripe running through the middle from the base nearly to the hinder margin. The body is blue and glossy; antennæ plumose: legs red.

The caterpillar (Plate XXII. fig. 1) is thick and fleshy, and of large size compared with the perfect