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[[blue pencil, circled]] Nov 5 1893 [[/blue pencil, circled]]

[[underlined]] H. obliqua! [[/underlined]]
406   [[underlined]] H. astarte? [[/underlined]]
NEW       
2 macrocarpa
Heterocampa on white oak, Plattsburgh N.Y. Aug. 30, 1893, Two-headed, hd higher than wide, clypeus [[image- triangle shape]], sutures modrate, rather angular laterally (colors gone) [[insertion]] 1 (Sh hd 2.35) [[/insertion]]) w. 2.5 mm. Body hunched 7-10 so it looks humped, tapering past into almost tail latr anal feet 1.5 mm long. A pair of short cervical tubercle horns (red tipped? injured in the specimen) Leaf green peppered with purple brown and finely streaked with white. A peculiar white d. band, recalling [[underlined]] guttuvitta [[/underlined]] but without the s-d band. Dilated on 2, narrow 3-4, widening [[image- diamond shape]] 4  6  8 to lat. on 6 narrow in suture 8-9 widens, indent 11 just, narrowing to anal feet. Slightest brown bordered, enclosing [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] little green streaks in the ant. patch

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[[blue pencil strikethrough]] & layer, almost predominatly ones in the post. are with a few faint reddish lines. A series of mottled [[/blue pencil strikethrough]] red-brown blotches around spiracles & 2-v, with ill defined edges on 5/4 [[arrow pointing to lower right]]; 6-7/8 [[arrow pointing to lower left]]*; 9 [[arrow pointing down]]; 10 [[arrow pointing down]]. Traces of a white s-v line along ridge, seen distinctly only 12-13. Anal feet white with a brown line on top & black tips * beginning at the widened white band. 
[[underlined]] Another fd [[/underlined]] 3.5 mm Hd finely dotted - mottled with light red & black on a whitish ground, forming a diffuse grey band from ocelli to vertex, & crimson tinged around ocelli, mouth parts dark crimson as are the feet except at joints. Body with sordid white ground ^ [[insertion]] (or light green) [[/insertion]] thickly covered with red-brown rounded dots, arrow d in irregular long lateral streaks ^ [insertion]] (and white streaks intermixed) [[/insertion]] the lateral