Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2CK) 



The little nebulosa worms were reddish brown with the 

 head a little lighter than the body, but no further notes were 

 obtained on this species as the little "crawlers" died without 

 eating-, although they were offered foliage of walnut, shellbark 

 hickory, pecan, honey locust, plum, willow, sycamore, grape, 

 linden, ash, poplar, apple, coffee bean, butter nut, elm, bur oak, 

 and all of which they refused. 



Larvae of Catocala flebilis readily ate hickory and pecan 

 and were light brown, with a small, almost black head, just 

 after hatching. 



On the i8th, eight days later, these caterpillars were over half an inch 

 long, dark or lead color lined with lighter longitudinally. Head a little 

 darker than the rest of the body. The V's outlined middorsally. 



On the 2ist, the larvae were nearly an inch long, light gray, almost 

 white with a darker cross band over the latter half of the 5th abdominal 

 segment, over the 3d pair of prolegs. On the top of the first and second 

 abdominal segments are two black dots and two short black dashes. 

 Head with gray and black dashes. Tubercles black dot-like and each 

 set with a bristle. 



On the 25th the larvae of flebilis were one and a fourth inches long, 

 light gray, almost white with black "W's" on the dorsal side of the ist 

 and 2d abdominal segments and a cross band of black or very dark 

 brown on the top of the 5th abdominal segment. The underside of the 

 body whitish green with dark brown, almost black midventral spots. 

 Head dead-leaf brown without lateral dash. True and prolegs flesh 

 color. 



On the 3Oth, after moulting the day before, the larva was nearly two 

 inches long, mottled gray with a lighter middorsal row of "V" spots, 

 not very distinct. Tubercles reddish and studded with bristles. No 

 lateral row of setae. A double black "V" on the dorsal side of the 

 ist and 2d abdominal segments and the cross black band over the 5th 

 abdominal segment broken on top by the middorsal row of "V's." 



On June 3d the larva was full two inches long and almost white with 

 markings as described on May 30th. The head a chestnut brown with 

 white streaks. 



On June 6th, the caterpillars were from 2 T 4 to 2*/ 2 inches long, 

 light gray, almost as white as flour. Underside white with greenish 

 tinge. Mid-ventral row of black spots. The two pairs of double dorsal 

 "V's" on the 1st and 2d abdominal segments, black. A black cross band 

 covers the dorsal side of the lateral half of the 5th abdominal segment 

 but is separated middorsally by an elliptical spot. Tubercles red-brown. 

 A few scattered lateral bristles or setae. True legs and head chestnut 



