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206 that the moth may be often found sitting on the trunks of large oaks, and that it is a native of Virginia as well as of Georgia. The chrysalis is of a delicate lilac tint. (Plate XXVI. fig. 4.)

The most common of the American yellow under-wings is the ''Phal. consors'' of Abbot and Smith (pl. 89), which is somewhat intermediate between the two just described. It measures two inches and three-quarters between the extremities of the fore wings; the surface of these is greyish brown, with several angular dark lines and ferruginous marks running across; under wings yellow, with two continuous black bands, very irregular on their edges, extending to the abdominal margin; the male with black spots on the back of the basal segments of the abdomen. The caterpillar frequents the bastard indigo (Amorpha fruticosa, Linn.). America likewise possesses a species nearly allied to our C. Fraxini, namely, C. Vidua (Abbot and Smith, pl. 91), but it is smaller than the European insect, and wants the broad bluish band across the disk of the hinder wings.