210 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 'l2 



brown with white mottling. No black dash on the side of the head. 

 Prolegs body color. On the side of the 6th and /th abdominal segments 

 and behind the middorsal ridge on the 7th are black lines or dashes. 

 The first two larvae began spinning inside leaves on June 9th. 



The full grown larva of flebilis is about 2 l / 2 inches long and has as 

 chief characteristics, a light ashen-gray color, reddish tubercles, lack 

 of row of lateral setae, the broken cross band of dark brown or black 

 over the lateral half of the 5th abdominal segment. Head and true 

 legs flesh color. Head without side black dash. Whole body raspy. 

 Imago July ist. 



The larvae of Catocala retecta on May i8th, seven days 

 after hatching, were half an inch long, dark, almost black, striped 

 longitudinally. Head, body color. 



On May 2ist larvae nearly ^4 of an inch long, very dark, lined longi- 

 tudinally with black and white. True legs flesh color. Prolegs lighter 

 (ashen). The first two pairs the lightest. Head a little darker than 

 the body color. 



On the 25th the larva was i*4 inches long, bluish with a tinge of red. 

 Tubercles reddish. Body indistinctly streaked longitudinally. Underside 

 of the body greenish with the black, midventral round spots. Head 

 hardly lighter than the body color, streaked longitudinally with white. 

 Slight lateral dash of black. Lateral setae short. 



On May 3Oth, the larva of rctccta was ^/ 2 inches long, reddish brown 

 with red tubercles. Bristles dark. Head round with white and red- 

 brown mottling. Front legs flesh color. The mid-dorsal row of spots 

 very indistinct. 



On June 1st the caterpillar is two inches long, grayish with a tinge 

 of green. Tubercles reddish. A lateral row of short sparse setae. 

 A cross band of brown on the top of the 5th abdominal segment. Head 

 red-brown with white lines. 



On June 5th the larvae were 2 l /\ inches long, dark gray with central 

 dorsal row of V spots not very distinct. Tubercles reddish. Lateral 

 row of short setae. A cross band of darker brown on the latter half of 

 5th abdominal segment, dorsally. Head light chestnut with white linear 

 markings. A short lateral black dash either side of the mouth. True 

 legs light flesh color. Prolegs much the same color. The cross dorsal 

 band broken by the middorsal row of "Vs." Ventral side of the body 

 white with the mid-row of black spots. 



The first larva spun in leaves on the 15th of June and was less 

 than \YA, inches long. 



Compared with the larva of flebilis, that of rctccta is much 

 darker. On some of the grown larvae of flebilis there is a 

 narrow stigmatal band, darker than the ashen body color and 



