342 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 



APPLE. LEAVES. 



?ar leaf, a pretty, bright leaf-green, thick, smooth worm, tapering, 

 iliickest anteriorly, where on each side is an eye-like spot formed 

 of a black spot having a pale blue centre and surrounded by a 

 pale yellow ring which is widened on its upper side and has a 

 short black line in this widened part. Growing to 1.25 in length 

 and 0.40 thick. The pupa naked, attached to the side of a limb 

 and held in its place by a silken thread passed around its body 

 in the form of a loop. The butterfly appearing in June, of a rich 

 pale yellow color, its wings with a broad black border in which 

 is a row of yellow spots, and with four black streaks, the inner 

 one extending across both pairs. Width 3.00 to 4.75. Somewhat 

 common. 



37, Red-humped prominent, Notodonia concinna, Smith and Abbot. (Lepi- 

 doptera. Notodontidae.) 



In August, in a cluster, eating all the leaves from the end of a 

 particular limb, cylindrical prickly worms striped with black and 

 tawny yellow, and on each side with white also, with bright red 

 heads and a slight hump on the fourth ring, and with two rows 

 of black prickles along the back and shorter ones upon the sides. 

 Length 1.25. Forming a cocoon under leaves upon or slightly 

 under the earth. The moth appearing the last of June; light 

 brown, its fore wings dark brown on the inner and grayish on the 

 outer margin, with a dot near the middle, a spot near each angle 

 and several longitudinal streaks along the hind margin dark 

 brown. Width 1.00 to 1.20. See Harris's Treatise, p. 329. 



Unicorn prominent, Notodonta unicornis, see Plum insects, No. 66. 

 Hag moth, Limacodes pithecium, see Cherry insects. No.. 85. 



3§. Canker worm, j^nisopteryx vernata, 'Peck. (Lepidoptera. Geometridae.) 



The last of May and in June, piercing small holes in the leaves 

 and when larger consuming all the leaf except the large veins. 

 A very variable measure- worm, nearly an inch long, ten-footed, 

 black, clay-yellow or greenish, commonly with an ash-gray back 

 and a pale yellowish stripe along each side. The pupa state 

 passed under ground, the moth hatching late in autumn and on 

 warm days in winter, but mostly early in the spring; the female 

 gray, without wings, crawling up the trunk of the tree to deposit 

 her eggs; the male with large very thin silky ash-gray fore wings, 



