INSECTS AFFECTING PARK AND WOODI-AND TREES 



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Description. Cameron describes the larva as white, with a pale brown 

 head, darker at the sides ; mouth reddish brown. Legs encircled with 

 brown. Beneath on the second segment there is a black, oblong plate some- 

 times with a clot on either side. There is a small, black central dot on each 

 of the following segments, though they are often absent on the posterior 

 one. Length when full grown, 5 lines. The adult has been described by 

 Cameron as follows : 



Black, shining. Antennae short, stout, 

 covered with a stiff pile ; two first joints 

 together equal in length to the third, which is 

 twice longer than the fourth, the remaining 

 joints to the eighth shorter, the ninth joint 

 conical, longer than the preceding. Head a 

 little narrower than the thorax, scarcely pubes- 

 cent, shining, smooth, sutures moderately dis- 

 tinct ; labrum and mandibles piceous ; palpi 

 dark testaceous. Thorax shining, smooth, 

 glabrous ; tegulae black. Abdomen short, coni- 

 cal, thick, smooth, semitruncated at the apex ; 

 blotch large, sheaths of saw exserted. Legs : 

 femora, coxae and trochanters black ; apical 

 half of the two anterior femora, knees, tibiae 

 and tarsi, dark testaceous. Wings faintly 

 smoky; first radial cellule a little smaller than 

 the second, second cubital cellule more than 

 double the width of the base at the apex, angled 

 where it receives the recurrent nervure. Male 

 similar, but with thicker and longer antennae, 

 the joints from the fourth being perceptibly 

 thicker than the basal ones. Length i i / lines. 



Bibliography 

 1898 Felt, E. P. State Ent. 14th RL-p't. p. 257 



Brown tail moth 

 Eiiproclis ckrysorrlioca Linn. 

 Small web tents oti the tips of trees in tnidwinter very likely belong to this species, 

 particularly if small caterpillars are found within. 



This species does not at present occur in New York State, but it is 

 only a question of time before it will become established within our borders, 



