JUNIPER CATERPILLARS. 913 



3, The six-spotted metachroma. 



Metachroma Gnotata Say. 



Order Coleoptera ; family Chrysomelidje. 



Feeding on the leaves in July, an oblong pale shining beetle, .15 

 long, narrower anteriorly and punctured, the punctures in rows on the 

 wing-covers becoming very faint towards their tips, and on each wing- 

 cover three black spots, the forward one long and narrow, the other 

 two situated on the middle, parallel and almost in contact, the inner 

 one placed rather farther back. 



4. The apple liopus. 



Liopus facetus Say. 



Order Coleoptera ; family Cerambycid^, 



Feeding on the leaves in July, a small black long-horned beetle .18 

 long, with long slender hair-like tawny-yellow antennae, their basal 

 joint and the tips of two or three following joints black ; its thorax 

 with an ash-gray stripe on the middle and an oblique one on each side 

 of this, the hind ends of these stripes sometimes uniting and forming 

 a letter W ; its wing-covers with a large ash-gray spot forward of the 

 middle and almost reaching the suture, having in it an oblique trian- 

 gular black spot, and towards the tip an ash- gray band concave on its 

 hind side. 



Mr. Say states that he obtained his specimens from the juniper, but 

 its occurrence thereon was perhaps accidental, as I have found it on 

 apple trees in a section of country where no juniper grows. (Fitch.) 

 We may add that the European Liopus nehulosus Linn., though usually 

 living in the apple and other fruit trees, also in Europe, mines the 

 Pinus abies and P. picea. (See p. 658; fig. 216). 



5. The Juniper salmon-tinted caterpillar. 



Order Lepidoptera ; family Noctuid^. 



Feeding on the leaves of the low-bush juniper, in August, in Maine, a small noctuid 

 caterpillar with five pairs of abdominal legs. Body thickest a little in front of the 

 middle. Head small, rounded, pale honey-yellow, as wide as the prothoracic seg- 

 ment. Body flesh colored, finely striped with alternating reddish flesh-colored and 

 whitish fine wavy lines ; two subdorsal reddish lines on each side of the body. The 

 body of this caterpillar is short and thick but sharp at the end, somewhat as in 

 Leucania. When observed, August 27 to September 12, the caterpillar was about 6™"" 

 long. 



6. Noctuid Larva. 



Order Lepidoptera ; family Noctuid^. 

 Beaten from the juniper, August 5, at Brunswick. 



Larva. — Head honey -yellow, with two darker stripes on each side of the clypeus. 

 Body umber brown, with two broad conspicuous straw-yellow stripes, edged nar- 

 rowly above with blackish, and a similar lateral spiracular stripe. Body beneath and 

 all the feet pale blackish. Length, S?'""*. 

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