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ated stripes on the elytra, the intervals smooth, two denticulations at the base of the posterior thighs. G. vernalis, S. vernalis, Lin. Oliv. Col. iv. 23, shorter than the preceding, approaching the hemispherical form, of a violet or blue black, with the antenn black, and the elytra smooth. OCHOD US, Meg. Melolontha, Fab.* Have the labrum strongly emarginated and nearly in the form of a heart truncated posteriorly; the mandibles are in the form of an elongated triangle, one of which

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tions of their articulations, may be employed in the division of this genus, which is tolerably numerous. The scutellera nigro-lineata, is found in temperate and southern Europe. It is common in the south of France, on the leaves of the cherval, and on other plants. Another species (S. hottentota) is found on rye at the epoch of its maturity. The scutellera, from the Melville Island, which we name besalis, is of a rich blue; and some specimens vary to a fine green colour, with the base of the

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stripes; the under wings elongated into a tail, and having, near the posterior edge, some blue spots, one of which is like an eye, with red at the internal angle. The caterpillar is green, with black rings, dotted with red, and lives on the leaves of carrot, fennel, c. P. Podalirius, God., and P. Alexanor, are also found in France*. ZELIMA, Fab. These differ from the last only by the club of the antenn , which is shorter and more rounded. I know two species of them, one of Senegal, and the other of

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of an azure blue, changing into pale violet, with a slight black stripe pursuing the hind edge, and a very white fringe; that of the wings of the female is brown, with a range of fulvous spots near the posterior edge, and a black stripe in the middle of the upper wings. The under part of all the four wings is nearly the same in both sexes, gray, with a range of fulvous spots enclosed within two lines of points near the posterior edge; * Fabricius has established in this division many other

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pretty species, Cossus sculi, Fab., whose body is of a fine white, with blue rings on the abdomen, and numerous points of the same colour on the upper wings, lives in the interior of the Indian chesnut tree, the apple and pear tree, and often even in their pith*. Our second section, that of Bombycites, is distinguished from the preceding, and from the third, by these characters: Proboscis always short, and simply rudimentary; wings, whether extended and horizontal, or sloping, with the under

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some large yellow spots near the centre; those nearest the posterior angle are the smallest, some of them in a lunar form; beneath the lower wings brownish black, with the band as above, white; each spot formed of red scales, and some scattered, then a narrow lune of black, next a line of blue scales, and a row of red lunes on the posterior margin. This species is from South America. We have figured two species which belong to the genus Pieris: the first we name Pieris Swainsonii. It is a

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, L. Blue jay 4. Caryocatactes, Cuv Corv. caryocat, L. Nutcracker 5. Temia, Vaill Corv. varians, Lath. Variable crow 6. Glaucopis, Forst G. cinerea, Lath. Wattle-bird XIII. Coracias, L. 1. coracias, prop. Cuv. C. garrula, L. Garrulous roller 2. Colaris, Cuv Coracias Afra L. African roller XIV. Paradisea, L. P. apoda, L. Great bird of Paradise I. Sitta, L 1. Sitta, prop. Cuv S. European, L. Common nuthatch 2. Xenops, Illig X. rutilus, Licht. 3. Anabates, Tem A. cristatus, Spix 4. Synallaix

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with blue jaws, great, 265 guacamaia, 265 [page] 18

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visible on the thighs, which, in addition to their teeth, distinguishes them from the iguanas. * Ag Undulata, Daud. A species of all America, remarkable for the white cross which it has under the throat on a ground of black blue. The Ag. Nigricollaris, Spix, xvi. 2, and Cyclurus, xvii. f. 1, are at least greatly approximating to it. Spix has expressed himself with little exactness in saying that the scales of his Uposama are verticillated, which has deceived M. Fitzinger. The genus Tropidosaurus

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dermis pale greenish-brown; the inside white, with two broad blue bands, in the front of which is enclosed the canal; axis one and a half, diameter one inch. 71. CYPR A ARABICA, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 3398. Lam. Hist. vii. 378. Gray, Zool. Jour. i. 76. Icon. Lister. Conch. t. 658. f. 3. Martini. i. t. 31. f. 328. Ency. M th. t. 352 f. 1, 2. 72. CYPR A TIGRIS, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 3408. Lam. Hist. vii. 382. Gray, Zool. Jour. i. 367. Icon. Lister. Conch. t. 682. f. 29. Martini i. t. 24. f. 232 234

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also is found, by its greater degree of activity, particularly in a state of nature. It is nearly three feet in height; the face is naked, of a very dark blue colour, lightly tinted with brown in the female; the eyes are near each other, and sunken; and the muzzle is remarkably prominent. The nose is not so flat as that of the Siamang, and the nostrils are large and open laterally. The chin is furnished with a few black hairs. The ears are nearly hidden by the long hair around them, and there is a

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, was on an occasion when no champagne was forth-coming. He was naturally of a playful and affectionate disposition, and it was never found necessary to chain or chastise him. It was usual for this Bear, the Cat, the Dog, and a small blue Mountain-Bird, or Lory of New Holland, to meet together, and eat out of the same dish. His favourite play-fellow was the Dog, whose teasing and worrying was always borne, and returned with the utmost good-humour and playfulness. As he grew up, he became a very

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membrane stretching from the inner canthus to nearly half over the ball, thus protecting those organs from danger while in search of their food. In common with other quadrupeds, they possess a seventh muscle of the eye, called suspensorius, fixed in the sclerotic coat, and intended to sustain the weight of the orb, and to prevent the optic nerve being stretched; the posterior part of the cricoid coat, called the tapetum, is, in them, generally of a green passing into a blue colour, to enable them to

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under the above denomination, by Mr. Daniell, in his African Scenery and there said to be in stature, general conformation, and colours like the Blue and Roan Antelopes. It has been surmised that, in fact, the Takhaitze was no other than the above, and this probability was increased by Mr. Burchell searching in vain for the present animal where it was said to exist, and finding in its stead the Equina already described. That animal when seen at a distance, appears rufous, and, in fact, among Mr

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, or Rishya, because it is derived from the Hindee Rojh*, the animal being designated by that word in the Amera Cosha, and in the Indian Sacred Volume, chap. xxiv. ver. 27, where three Rishyas are directed to be consecrated to the deities, named Vasus. The Neelghau in common with the rest of this genus, is never regarded by the natives as in the least allied to Antilope. Its name imports Blue-Ox, in the Persian dialect used in India. In stature this species measures at the shoulder about four

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, in common with most ruminants, numbers only thirteen pair: the legs are more slender than those of the Ox or Buffalo, and the tongue is blue, while the Ox has it flesh colour. Mr. Gilibert who reared an individual, naming the species by its true appellation, represents the hair of the female Bison as soft, placed in the skin at an obtuse angle: of two sorts one long and the other soft; while those of the Cow are of one kind, hard and close to the hide. Those of the male Bison are very long

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description may be expected at no great distance of time. Although the existence of this animal is more questionable in Africa, yet Pliny's thiopian Bull with blue eyes* might refer to this species, and even the white variety as large as a camel, known in Madagascar by the name of Bouri, be the same. The American Bison. (Bos Americanus.) This species is commonly known by the name of Buffalo, and was long confounded with the Bison of Europe, though it is anatomically more remote from it, than the Yak

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The passeres have eggs the ground of which is white or whitish blue or bluish green usually spotted with deep colours such as red brown and black. The Tomtit kind which nestle in the hollows of trees have eggs altogether white or white picked with red. The same is the case with the swallows and martens. The larks pipis c. have the eggs of an earthy hue. The nest is scarcely finished when the bird commences to lay and if the eggs be removed in proportion as they are deposited they will lay a

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barbarus and barbatus which have been separated from this genus have the most considerable part of the tarsus naked as can be verified at the Museum of Natural History in Paris where specimens of all are to be seen either in the menagerie or in the gallery of stuffed birds. The Cinereous Vulture is nearly the size of the fulvous (sometimes larger) and has a collar of long narrow and bristling feathers; the naked skin of the head and neck is blue and garnished with down; the beak blackish; the cera

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lower bounds of the everlasting snows. Isolated and remote from every living being to which it is possible to compare him the condor presents himself in contrast only with the blue depths of the horizon. This remarkable station and the large crest of the male condor makes the bird appear much larger than in reality he is. M. de Humboldt himself was long deceived in this way during his visits to the desert summits of these volcanos. He believed the condors to be of a very gigantic size; and it

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species; sometimes the upper parts are reddish spotted with black; sometimes the top of the head is shaded more or less with a clear blue and sometimes it becomes entirely white. The American Sparrow Hawk or Falcon Malfini (Spar-verius Lath.) is a Transatlantic bird: it is found in Carolina Cayenne St. Domingo and the Antilles. Lizards grasshoppers c. form the principal aliment of this bird: it also attacks young chickens; it is more sociable in the Antilles than in North America. It nestles

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are three or four in number of a bluish green spotted with brown. The male utters a plaintive cry like that of a pullet. Its song is agreeable and melodious having some resemblance to that of the red-breast but is not so well sustained. It may be considered but as a single couplet of that bird's performance. This flycatcher is not destitute of courage and will dispute precedence not unfrequently with the blue titmouse and other small birds. It attacks with so much impetuosity that it always

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motion of the tail and slight tremor of the wings. It generally places its nest on trees of middling size and composes it of small roots and dried herbs bound together with a cement of clay. This nest perfectly resembles that of our song-thrush; the eggs are four or five in number of a clear blue varied with obscure spots. The fieldfares come among us from the north of Europe in November and December. They delight in fallow-lands in places where flax-seed is found. Towards the end of winter they

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without much risk and labour that their young brood can be got at; and even when the robber arrives at the place a sure danger awaits him of having his eyes plucked out by these birds which are not less courageous than distrustful and will defend their young with desperate obstinacy. The eggs are four or five in number of a greenish blue. The young rock thrushes may be brought up with the same sort of paste used for the nightingale; but they must be taken in the nest for says Montbeillard when

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worms and insects, which the parents hunt with much dexterity. Taken adult in the after season, the red-breast may be easily retained in captivity, and will sing for some time after the loss of liberty. It may be preserved, by giving it the same food as the nightingale receives. In the back season, this bird joins to its natural insectivorous regimen, tender berries and fruits of different kinds. Its flesh is then delicate, and in estimation. The Blue-throated Warbler (Sylvia Suecica) has a similar

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: therefore if the increase of the water should be considerable, the nests will be submerged. It may be mentioned here, that the inhabitants of Lorraine judge of the height to which the waters will arrive, by the elevation of the nest of the river nightingale. The Spotted Warbler (Sylvia N via) is the smallest of the aquatic species. It is more frequent in this country than in France, remains usually in thick hedges, briars, and even reeds. The eggs of this species are of a pale blue. The Black-cap

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designate as a genus some species of the warblers distinguished by a gauzelike tail. The opposite figure is of a bird which seems referable to this group. The whole upper part is dusky brown, the throat brown, the tail and streak over the eye are azure blue, the remainder of the bird is bright reddish brown; the tail feathers, only five, are spread and very thin, the middle is the longest, and the other two on each side decrease in length successively. The figures of the Dwarf Warbler, and Exile

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discovered in New Holland. Among the titmice, those which are most easily caught in snares, c. are the great, the black, and blue-headed species; the crested, the long-tailed, the bearded, and the penduline are not so easily managed. There are plenty of modes employed, with success, for the destruction of these little birds, the details of which would involve but little interest for our readers. Those who keep bees are very sufficiently justified, however, in destroying the titmice, as the latter wage

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plumage, he presents to the eye all the colours of the prism in their utmost splendour. The richest and most brilliant reflections of blue, purple, violet, green, and gold, play upon a ground of velvet black. In the female and the young, the colours are, according to the usual law of nature in the feathered tribes, of a duller cast in general. These birds in their mode of life have some analogy with our own rooks. Like these, they delight all the year round in the society of their fellows. They fix

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nests on trees. The materials which they employ are straw externally, coarse hay for the centre, and fine plants for the inside, and some feathers. In this nest, inartificially constructed, the female deposits four eggs of a greenish blue, about the bulk of those of the thrush. The male takes a share in the incubation, and the young do not leave the nest until they are well plumed. This bird is not in request for its natural song, but for its plumage, and its aptitude in learning all that it

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establishment. It is a very splendid bird, about the size of the common magpie. The general colour of the upper part is blue; but round the eyes, on the throat, and beneath it, is white. From behind the eyes descends a black, irregular stripe, which, passing downwards, unite and enlarge into a patch; the cheek and throat are whitish. The two middle tail-feathers are nearly double the length of any of the others; the lateral feathers are graduated, and tipt with white. Fram [page break

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white patch. The lateral crest is of broad feathers, inclining backward; green at the tips; whitish towards the insertion. The other is deep-green, waved all over, except the quills of the wings, which are blackish; and the lateral crest, which is of ultra-marine blue, mixed with red. The figure of the giant humming-bird is from M. Vieillot. It is green-brown above; deeper on the back; the rump is white, mixed with red; the upper wing coverts are white, bordered with red; the rectrices have a

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the males; whilst the young, in their first or second livery, and even after the third moulting, present characters peculiar to themselves. Green is, in general, the predominating colour; then comes red, then blue, and finally yellow. This last colour appears among the parrots to be the general substitute for the white observed in other birds; and it is remarkable that, in many of their species, there are varieties uniformly yellow, as among birds in general we behold Albin's varieties. Very

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principal differences consists. The wild peacock has all the small coverts of the upper part of the wings, as well as the subalar plumes, of a deep and brilliant green; they are bordered by green, with reflexions of gold; the small and the middle coverts are deep-blue, bordered with golden-green; the greater coverts are of a greenish and metallic-black. All have broad edgings of fine bronzed-purple, changing into molten copper colour; the bastard wing is of a bistre-brown; the first ten great wing

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turkeys, and some which, for them as well as geese and ducks, are a true poison; such as henbane, the great digitalis with blue flowers, and cicuta. These plants should be pointed out to the conductors of the flocks of turkeys, that they may pluck them up wherever they are to be found in the pasture. When the young turkeys have just broken the shell, the head is covered with a kind of down, and they have neither glandulous flesh, nor barbles. It is only at six weeks or two months old that these

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as far as the ears, as in the common hen. The eyes are round and black, and surrounded with an iris of a very lively red. Under the eyes the skin is flesh-coloured, mingled with blue, and naked, with the exception of a tuft of hairs, forming a kind of mustachio, towards the ears, and concealing the aperture. This hen was found in the district of Belef, in the government of Tula, in Russia, and sent by the Governor to the Imperial University of Moscow. There is one monstrosity, more common than

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QUAILS all have one common character, which is easily recognised. The first quill of the wing is as long as those which follow it; while in the other partridges it is much shorter. We insert a figure of apparently an undescribed species from the Island of St. Lorenzo in Callao Bay. The head, neck, back, and wing-coverts are light-buff, with lunated obscure spots; the quills are blackish; and the throat, belly, vent, and thighs, blue-white. [page break

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upper pert of the back is brown, and the rest of the bird is nearly black. Inhabits New South Wales, especially Hawkesbury River there. The Spanish Duck, Anas Viduata, is described at p. 620. The figure of Anas discars, the Blue-winged Teal of Latham and Catesby, is from a specimen in the British Museum. It is described at p. 606. We shall now speak of the Common Duck, confining our observations chiefly to the wild state of that species, as we did with the goose. It is towards the middle of

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more vertical bands of a turquoise blue; a black spot on the pectoral; tail shaped like a crescent. One of the most beautiful fishes of the Mediterranean. Hot climates produce numerous species of this fish, most of which are splendidly and variously coloured. Some of them have a rounded or truncated caudal 1. The first dorsal rays of others are drawn out into filaments 2. 1 Species with a round or truncated tail. Labre parterre, Lac p. III. xxix. 2, the same as the Echiquier, id. p. 493. L

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central spot of bright blue, surrounded with a circle of gray. The fore part of the head is emarginated. The eyes are reddish, and the tail long and slender. The electric organs in this species are scarcely visible, and the animal is capable of giving only very slight shocks. The flesh of this species is whiter and much more agreeable as food, than that of the other. It inhabits the flat shores of Nice. [page break

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were found in a bed of gravel, and upon the great stratum of blue argilla which is so considerably extended over England and France. In 1815, three large tusks and other elephantine bones were found at Newnham, in Warwickshire, and with them two skulls of the rhinoceros, and several stag's horns. All these fossils were found in gravel, thickly mixed with argilla. In 1803, a large skeleton was found near Harwich, supposed to be about thirty feet in length. But the bones broke immediately on

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observed one of these dimensions, having counted the number of series, and that of the eggs in each, found that it contained 39,760 eggs. They are at first of a yellowish colour, but afterwards they become limpid, and finally blue. The calamaries appear to possess both general and particular sensibility, still more developed than in the sepi and octopi. Their sight especially seems to be very fine; their muscular activity is not less great: they move with the greatest rapidity in the deep sea

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light of a fire, though concentrated by convex glasses, and concave mirrors, has no effect upon it. Duhamel gives the colours which it assumed, on exposure to the sun, in the following order; 1. a pale green, or yellow; 2. an emerald green; 3. a dark blueish-green; 4. a blue, with an incipient redness; 5. a purple. These colours appeared in less than five minutes; but it only became green when it was not exposed to the light. This succession of colours is best observed when the sun is low; in the

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pompilius, Lin. Shell white, with brown rays, hinder lip black. 22. 5. Ner a Chinensis, Gray. White, concentrically grooved. 7. 12. Ochthosia Stroemii. Yellowish white. 5. 1. Octopus Cuvierii. Claret colour. 2. 6. Olion Cuvierii, Leach. Pale blue, with metallic reflections. 6. 12. Oliva ispidula, Lam. Brownish white. 6. 13. Oliva auricularia, Lam. Pale grey. 37. 3. Oliva tessalata, Lam., var. Brown, with darksquare spots. 5. 6. Onychoteusis angulata, arm of. [page] 59

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produce in some species, a very agreeable mixture of colours, often bordering on blue or green. The greater number of fossil crustacea, which have been discovered up to the present day, belong to the order of decapods. Among those of Europe, some, and the most ancient, approach the species now actually existing in the zones which neighbour the tropics. The others, or the more modern, have a great affinity with the living species, which are proper VOL. XIII. L [page] 14

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Abdomen annulated brown and yellow, with white dots. 14. 5. Epeira sericea, 416 Body silvery, legs annulated red and black. 14. 6. Epeira cornuta, 416 Brown, with whitish lines, legs annulated blue and yellow. 14. 7. Epeira angulata, 416 Brown, with reddish dorsal lines. 14. 8. Epeira bicornis, 416 Green, with ashy dorsal marks. 14. 9. Epeira diadema, 416 Red, with white spots. 16. 1. Epeira quadrata, 417 16. 2. Epeira fusca, 417 Brown, with dark stripes. 16. 3 Epeira cucurbitina, 417 Green

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have been found on the following day without antenn and feet. They are often observed on corn, trying to devour the tin , or engaged in perpetuating their species. The trogossita caraboides, however, and the blue trogossita, have been found in old bread, the crumbs of which were gnawed away by them. The larva, when arrived at its full growth, is about eight lines in length, and scarcely more than a line in breadth. Its body is whitish, composed of twelve tolerably distinct rings, [page break

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multiplication of the other species of the class to which they belong. In fact they devour all the insects which they can lay hold of. Not being very difficult as to choice of species, all come alike to them. They are often seen in the air, carrying off small flies, the blue meat-fly, and even butterflies. It is this taste for insects which brings them into flower-gardens, fields, and especially along hedges, on which many flies and butterflies repose. This same appetite leads them to the banks of

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rubbing of the palpi against the trunk*, and by M. Lorey to the rapid escape of the air from two particular cavities in the belly, which have frightened people in certain years in which this insect was more than usually common . Its caterpillar is yellow, with blue stripes on the sides; and the tail bent back in zigzag. It feeds on potatoes, privet, jasmin, c., and is turned into a nymph toward the end of the month of August. The perfect insect appears in September. The caterpillars of some

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to be indicated by a passage from Dionysius the Periegete. It is known that silk anciently sold for its weight in gold, and is still an important source of wealth to France. B. neustria, Fab. R s. Ins. I., class ii., Pap. noc. 6. Yellowish, with a band, or two transverse stripes of yellow brown in the middle of the upper wings. The female deposits her eggs round branches, in form of a bracelet or ring. The caterpillar is striped longitudinally with white, blue, and reddish. They live in