INSECTS INJURING OAK-LEAVES. 149 



205. Adoneta spinuloides (Herrich-SchaeflPer). 

 (Larva, Plate in, Fig. 7.) 



This insect in its larval state is a general feeder, as Mr. Elliott in- 

 forms me, occurring on the oak, wild plum, cherry, and birch, while 

 Dr. Clemens reared it from a larva found in September on the apricot. 

 Miss Morton has found it feeding on the oak, chestnut, English, and 

 probably, wild cherry. 



I am indebted to Miss Emily L. Morton, of Newburgh, N. Y., for the 

 use of the colored figure of the larva. 



Larva. — Body semi-cylindrical, tapering posteriorly, and rounded obtusely in front. 

 Nearly smooth, but with a subvascular row of small, fleshy, minutely spined papulee 

 on each side of the vascular lines, three of which placed anteriorly are separated and 

 distiuct, and three approximated on the last rings ; the intermediate ones are minute. 

 The outline of the body above the ventral surface is furnished with a row of minutely 

 spined papulae. 



Bright green, with a broad dorsal yellow band, containing a reddish purple one, 

 which is constricted opposite the second and third pairs of anterior papulae and di- 

 lated into an elliptical patch in the middle of the body. This is almost separated from 

 a smaller elliptical patch which is constricted opposite the third pair of posterior 

 papulai and ends in a small round patch. The anterior and posterior papuli© are 

 crimson and the intermediate ones green. The superventral row of spined papulie are 

 green. (Clemens.) 



Moth. — Reddish-brown, somewhat paler in the female than in the male. Fore wings 

 with a dingy yellow streak along the base of the inner margin, extending toward the 

 disk above the middle of the wing, and on this portion are two or three blackish 

 dots On the hind portion of the disk is a short black streak. In the male there is 

 another short black streak along the median nervure and its last branch, with a curved 

 row of three black, submarginal spots. The lower streak and the spots are as distinct 

 in the female as in the male. In both sexes there is a subapical dingy yellow patch, 

 lightly bordered behind with whitish. Hind margin spotted with black. Hind wing 

 pale reddish brown. (Clemens.) 



206. Packardia nigripunctata Goodell. 



The caterpillar of this moth was found on the oak by Mr. L. W. Goodell, 

 of Amherst, Mass. According to his recollection it was oval or boat- 

 shaped in form, green, with several longitudinal rows of minute white 

 papillae or spots. The cocoon was round and hard, and the moth 

 emerged June 20. (Can. Ent. XIII, 30.) 



The moth. — Female: Fore wings light bronzy brown; a narrow, oblique, nearly 

 straight, dark brown band runs from near the inner margin outward to a little be- 

 yond the middle of the costa, where it is joined at a right angle by another band, 

 which is short and curved, terminating at about one-third of the distance from the 

 costa to the inner angle. Between the end of the short band, and a little outward 

 and above the internal angle, is a curved row of three roundish black dots, of which 

 the marginal one is three times larger than the inner, and twice as large as the inter- 

 mediate one. The bands and spots form a distinct inverted V. Within the area thus 

 formed and parallel with the inner is a brown line, which extends from the inner mar- 

 gin to the discal end of the short curved band. This line is a shade lighter in color 

 than the bands, and is edged outwardly with very pale or whitish brown. There is 

 a band of the same pale brown or whitish color, which included the black dots and 



