IO6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'lO 



unlike a Catocala "worm", yellow, striped with longitudinal 

 lines of a dark brown color. Head brown with lighter streaks, 

 The dorsal portion of the first thoracic segments bright yellow 

 and without the stripes. The tubercles on the top of the first 

 thoracic segment and the last two abdominal segments, black, 

 True legs black, pro-legs, yellow with black tubercles. A 

 strange looking Catocala larva. 



The young cerogama larvae have the habit of hiding in the 

 leaf buds and the older ones down in the foliage. 



After the third moult the larva is yellowish with longitudinal 

 black parallel lines. The top of the first thoracic segment has a 

 yellow collar-like surface with black dots or points. The pro- 

 legs, color of the body. True legs with black tips and dark out- 

 side. The pair of tubercles over the eighth abdominal segment, 

 short, black horns. The top of the caudal shield yellow with 

 back dots as with the first thoracic segment but not so distinct. 

 A very sluggish larva. 



After the fourth moult the color is unchanged. Head, mot- 

 tled yellow, brown and white and much larger than just before 

 the moult, without any black dashes. True legs, shiny black. 

 The two dorsal tubercles over the eighth abdominal segment, 

 black pointed, prominent, horn-like. The larva still has the 

 bright yellow collar with black dots over the first thoracic seg- 

 ment. The ventral surface is a light green with small, not very 

 dark, mid-ventral spots. 



The grown larva of cerogama is fully two inches long, thick, 

 dark purplish brown with interrupted longitudinal lines of 

 black, very fine. A pair of short tubercular dark brown spines 

 on the top of the last spiracular segment (8th abdominal). 

 The yellow collar and yellow caudal shield, with black dots or 

 low tubercles. Head mottled, white, yellow and black (black 

 streaks). True legs black on the outside. Pro-legs, body 

 color. Ventral surface, yellow-green (light) with an almost 

 entire absence of the mid-ventral spots. The caterpillar is very 

 tame and lazy. The spiracles of the grown larva of cerogama 

 are very noticeable, being rather large, black and surrounded by 

 a yellow ring. (The mid-ventral spots, when present are light 

 brown). 



