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eggs and an- then about 'j-^ inch long with a hirgc, straight caudal horn 

 pointing obli(]uely up and backward. After iIk- first molt the seven oblique 

 whitish stripes arc \ isible, and in the next stage there is an ailditional 

 series of reddish si)()ts along the longitudinal whitish stripe. 



Apatelodes torrefacta Abb. & Sm. 



A pretty yellowish or wliitisii, long-haired lalerpillar about two inches long, with 

 three dark hair pencils along the median line, one each on the second and third thoracic 

 and eightli abdominal segments, occurs in midsuninuT on various food plants. 



This caterpillar is a rather general feeder, having been recorded on 

 ash, wild cherry, willow, sassafras, alder, blackberry, bayberry, azalea, 

 viljurnum, hazel, ironwooil and gall berry. It is clothed with long, 

 yellowish hairs which bend backward and the body beneath is marked with 

 yellowish white. The long, yellow hairs part along the median line, where 

 there are also a few short black hairs, giving a distinct black marking. 

 The eggs are laid the latter part of June, hatching early in July, the 

 larva requiring about 30 days to complete its growth. A parasite, 

 Eremotylus macrurus Linn., has been reared from this insect. 



Bibliography 

 1895 Packard, A. S. First Memoir on the Bombycine .Moths, p. 100-3 



Hylotoma macleayi Leach 

 Black-headed, yellowish green, black-spotted, false caterjiillarlike larvae nearly 

 ^ inch long, feed in August on chokecherry foliage. 



This larva has been carefully described" by Mr J. G. Jack of Jamaica 

 Plain, and his account follows: 



I-'ull grown larva from 15 to iS mm long. Head black. Hod\- 

 fiattish ; pale yellowish green, with four ilistinct lines of black sjjots along 

 the b'ack extending from the head to the anal segment; and with some 

 minute, less regularly arranged spots or dots along the sides above the 

 fleshy projections which characterize larvae of this genu.s. Each fleshy 

 projection bears a long narrow black spot. The anal segment is sur- 

 mounted by a large irregular ova! black l)lotch and is brown above the 



. '1891 Psyche, 6:11. 



