306 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



63. Catocala habilia Grote. 



" The larvse of this species were in company with those of obscuror 

 mentioned above. Different sizes were taken ; but slight changes in 

 color or ornamentation were noted at the molts. This larva is quite 

 different from any of the genus heretofore identified by me. It pupated 

 in the usual cocoon ; the first to change July 18 gave a moth August 18."^ 

 (Kellicott.) 



Larva. — An average mature caterpillar measured 2 inches in length ; slender, color 

 dark, in some almost black ; skin shining. Along the dorsum there is a broad stripe, 

 lighter than the general hue ; on either side a darker one of equal width ; the stig- 

 matal stripes almost black ; beneath pale whitish, with black spots on the middl© 

 segments. Head reddish black, with faint reticulations in white. 



64. Catocala sp. 



Order Lepidopteba ; family Noctuid^. 



This caterpillar occurs in June on the pig-nut hickory at Providence. 



Larva. — Young 13™'" long. Body very slender, head very small, considerably nar- 

 rower than the prothoracic segment. Body tapering towards each end, first abdomi- 

 nal segment about as long as all the thoracic ones, the abdominal segments being 

 very long compared with the thoracic ones; third and fourth abdominal segments 

 with minute legs, those on the fourth a little larger than those on the third segment; 

 those on fifth and sixth segments large and rather slender, blackish in front. Anal 

 legs very long, slender and spreading. Supra-anal plate very short and wide, rounded 

 behind. At base of anal legs next to the hind edge of the supra-anal plate are two 

 large shining dark piliferous tubercles ; four conspicuous black dorsal piliferous warts. 

 Body dull pearl colored, with two dorsal parallel wrinkled white lines; three similar 

 lateral lines. Upper side of thoracic legs dark. Head and thoracic segments a little 

 more dusky than the abdominal ones; head streaked longitudinally with white and 

 black. Clypeus with a median black line, and sides lined with black. Thoracic feet 

 a little dusky. Four lateral piliferous conspicuous dots on each abdominal segment, 

 arranged in an oblique rhomb. Length 13""". Found on Carya porcina May 24, 

 molted about the 26th, becoming 22™™ long, with the four anterior abdominal feet 

 well developed. 



Full-grown larva. — June 11. Head dull pearl, marbled with longitudinal irregular 

 black lines, somewhat flattened in front. Body dull pearl, mottled with brown and 

 blackish lines and spots. On top of each segment are four white dots arranged in a 

 square. A pair of rather broad interrupted dark brown dorsal lines, and a similar 

 lateral supra-stigmatal band. Five pairs of abdominal feet, all well developed. Be- 

 neath pale, with a median series of about twelve dark red -brown patches connected 

 together posteriorly. Length, June 4, 40™™. Although the young larva was supposed 

 to be a Pyralid, after the last molt the Catocala-like characters revealed them- 

 selves. 



65. Eugonta subaignaria (Hiibner.) 



Order Lepidoplia ; family Phaljeind^. 



During the past summer specimens of this common northern geo- 

 metrid were received from Mr. Adam Davenport, of Morganton, Fan- 

 nin County, Ga. In the accompanying letter Mr. Davenjiort stated 

 that the insects had first been noticed in the county two years before, 

 and that they had rapidly spread until they were now destroying 



