300 LEPIDOPTERA. 



with reddish scales. Mr. Treat has raised this fine moth from 

 the larva found on the common pitch pine ; it resembles that 

 of C. regalis. It also occurs in Georgia, as it has been figured 

 in the unpublished drawings of Abbot, now in the possession 

 of the Boston Societ}" of Natural History. 



Eacles i7n2)erialis Hiibner has broader wings, expanding from 

 four and a half to over five inches. The wings are yellow with 

 purple brown spots. The larva is but slightly tuberculated, 

 with long, fine hairs. Its chrysalis is like that of Anisota. 



The genus Anisota is much smaller than the foregoing, with 

 variously striped larvae, which are naked, with two long, 

 slender spiiies on the prothoracic ring, and six much shorter 

 spines on each of the succeeding segments. They make no co- 

 coons, but bury themselves several inches deep in the soil just 

 before transforming, and the chrysalids end in a long spine, 

 with the abdominal rings very convex and armed with a row of 

 small spines. The species have much smaller, narrower wings, 

 with less broadly pectinated antennte than in the foregoing 

 moths. ^4. rubicunda Fabr. is rose colored, with a broad, 

 pale yellow band on the fore wings. Anisota senatoria Smith 

 is pale tawny brown, with a large, white, round dot in the cen- 

 tre of each fore wing. 



The next group of this extensive family embraces the Lach- 

 neides of Hiibner, in which the moths have very woolly stout 

 bodies, small wings, with stoutly pectinated antenna?, while the 

 larvJE are long, cylindrical and hairy, scarcely tuberculated, and 

 spin a very dense cocoon. The pupae are longer than in the 

 two preceding subfamilies. Gastropacha (Fig. 159, hind wing) 

 has scalloped wiiags, and a singular grayish larva whose body 

 is expanded laterally, being rather flattened. G. Americana 

 Harris is rusty brown, slightl}^ frosted, and with ashen bands 

 on the wings. 



In Tolype the wings are entire. T. Velleda Stoll is a curi- 

 ous moth, being white, clouded with blue gray, with two broad, 

 dark gra}' bands on the fore wings. The larva is hair}' and is 

 liable to be mistaken for an excrescence on the bark of the 

 apple tree, on which it feeds. 



The American Tent Caterpillar is the larva of Clisiocampa, 

 well known by its handsome caterpillars, and its large, con- 



