INSECTS INJURIOUS TO: THE PINE. 205 
when they assumed a fixed position on newly-spun thin webs a little 
larger in extent than their bodies, on which they went into their winter 
rest. 
The caterpillar is as briefly described above. The moth, when at rest, 
folds its wings like the roof of a house, with its front legs extended, 
giving it an attitude like Hudryas grata. 
The moth (female) is a large thick-bodied moth, with short, broad 
wings and heavily pectinated antenne. It is named from the dark 
parallel longitudinal stripes on the upper surface of the fore wings. 
The fore wings are pale olive-ash, much clouded with brown and with 
scattered dark scales. The basal half of the front edge of the wing is 
olive-ash; the median vein is dark; below a broad black longitudinal 
stripe runs from the base of the wing out towards the outer edge. The 
inner median line is dentate, while the outer is distinct, black and 
scalloped. Marginal line brown. It expands 2 inches. (Grote and 
Rob.) 
79. THE YELLOW BEAR. 
Spilosoma virginica Fabricius. 
This omnivorous caterpillar I have found feeding on the pitch-pine 
the first of September in Maine. 
80. THE PINE MEASURING WORM. 
Paraphia subatomaria Guenée. 
Order LEPIDOPTERA; family PHALHNID®. 
Feeding on the pine, a brown measuring worm, the moth appearing June 24. 
(Saunders. ) 
The caterpillar of this moth is not known farther than that its color is 
brown. 
The moth is a delicate species with deeply serrated and angulated 
wings. The present species differs from the others of the genus by its 
whitish color, being rarely somewhat ocherous, while the base and outer 
edge of the fore wings are as pale as the middle portion; the under 
side of the wings are rather pale. The wings expand 1.30-1.70 inches. 
81. THE RED STRIPED PINE MEASURING WORM. 
Cleora pulchraria Minot. 
Occurring on the pine, a red striped measuring worm, changing to a delicate 
whitish moth with full rounded wings. (Saunders. ) 
This caterpillar is probably another instance of protective mimicry, 
being striped with red, and thus assimilated, probably in color, to the 
red twigs of the pine among which it feeds. It, like the foregoing, has 
been reared by Mr. Saunders, of London, Canada. 
The pupa is rather thick, white, with a broad light-brown band along the back, be- 
coming widest in the middle of the body. There is also a narrow brown band along 
the side of the body, and on the under side of the abdomen are four longitudinal 
stripes of the same color. The wings are slashed with light brown, and the antenne 
