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quite black. The head, true and pro-legs are flesh color. Head 

 large and round and without a lateral black dash. No hump. 

 The tubercles are whitish and yellowish and very prominent, the 

 dorsal pair over the 8th abdominal segment being the strongest 

 and somewhat brown in color. Stiff bristles but no lateral row 

 of setae. The eggs from which the above larvae were obtained 

 were found by the junior author in a crowded cluster under the 

 loose outer bark of shag bark hickory, but the larvae were fed 

 to pupation on pecan and were quite free from disease. The 

 caterpillars began spinning on June I5th to 24th. 



The chyrsalis is one and a fourth inches long, light brown, 

 wing cases lighter than the rest of the body. The whole pupa 

 covered by a slight prunescence. The larvae spun either at the 

 bottom of the jar between folds of paper or above, between 

 leaves. The chyrsalids began to give imagoes on July loth and 

 continued to the i/|.th. Among the imagoes were two phalanya 

 and one or two very dark forms, on the hind wings of which 

 the yellow cross band was almost eliminated. The junior au- 

 thor fed a brood through on walnut and pignut hickory. 



The first larva of Catocala relic ta hatched on the I3th of 

 May and was green with a light chestnut head. True and pro- 

 legs light. Caterpillar very small and exceedingly active. The 

 hatching from this first batch of eggs continued for a number 

 of days. The mother of the brood was a light moth. The first 

 egg from a dark female hatched on the igth of May and others 

 hatched, one or two a day, for some time. After the first moult, 

 the larva was pale yellow or chestnut with a head a little deeper 

 in color. The legs colored as the body. After second moult, 

 the caterpillar is gray, longitudinally streaked and with very 

 light chestnut colored head. True and pro-legs slightly brown- 

 er than the body color. No hump. 



After third moult, the larva is an inch long, grayish brown 

 with a small flat head like that of the Cara larva, lobed above 

 and yellowish at the lobes. Behind the yellow tips or lobes, the 

 head is black. There is a small cross hump over the 5th ab- 

 dominal segment, quite black, and set in a large, dark, dorsal 

 spot. The true and pro-legs, body color. Over the 8th ab- 



