84 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



FOOD PLANTS OF SOME BOMBYCID.E AND NOCTUID^ 

 NOT INCLUDED IN H. EDWARDS'S CATALOGUE. 



BY ROLAND THAXTER, NEW HAVEN, CONN. 



The following brief list of food plants of Bombycidae and Noctuidae , 

 not included in the recently issued catalogue of Mr. Henry Edwards, may 

 be of some interest to persons engaged in rearing Lepidoptera. When 

 not otherwise stated the insects have been found and reared, or reared 

 from the eggs by myself, and were mostly collected at Kittery, Maine : — 



BOMBYCID^. 



Orgyia nova Fitch. Pinus strobus 



" definita Pack. Quercus. 

 Parorgyia basiflava Pack. Betula. 

 Lwiacodes biguttata Pack. Carya. 



" fasciola H.-S. Carya. 



" Y-inversa Pack. Carya. 

 Packardia geminata Pack. Carya. 

 Ichthyura strigosa Grote. Populus. 



" indentata Pack. Salix. 



" vau Fitch. Populus. 

 Gluphisia trilmeata Pack. Populus. 

 Notodonta stragula Grote. Populus. 

 Lophodo7ita ferruginea Pack. Betula. 



" Georgica H.-S. Quercus. 



Seirodonta bilmeata Pack. Quercus. 

 (Edernasia eximia Grote. Salix, Populus, 

 Dasylophia anguina A. & S. Baptisia. 



" interna Pack ? Carya. 



Ccelodasys biguttata Pack. {Schizura ipomece Doubl., Lee, Pack). Acer, 

 Ulmus, Quercus, Betula, Vaccinium, Ceanothus. 



" leptinoides Grote. Carya. 

 Heterocampa obliqua Pack. Quercus. 



" guttivitta Walk. Quercus, Carya. 



" biundata Walk. Carya. 



Cerura aquilonaris Lint. Populus. 

 Prioma bilineata Pack. Betula. 



