CHESTNUT CATERPILLARS. 353 



22. The chestnut caterpillar. 



Devouring the inside of cUestunts, the larva of a moth which grows to more than 

 half an inch in length, and is cylindrical and thick, of a dirty white color, with a 

 tawny yellow head and sixteen feet. It eats the meat of the nut mostly at its tip 

 and on its convex side, the cavity which it makes being filled with little brown and 

 whitish grains ; and a small hole is perforated upon one side of the nut at its tip, out 

 of which a portion of these grains is protruded. (Fitch). 



The following iusects also prey upon the chestnut: 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



23. Janassa lignicolor Walker. Miss Emily L. Morton writes me that 



she has found the eggs of this "Notodontian on a chestnut leaf, a 

 group of nine, and that the larva feeds indifferently on oak or 

 chestnut. See p. 157, and PI. Ill, fig. 5. 



24. Thecla liparops. (Scudder.) 



25. Thecla calanus Hiibn. (Buetenmiiller). 



26. Halesidota caryw Harr. (Beutenniiiller, Ent. Amer., vi, 16.) 



Fig. 133. Probably Halesiduta taai'ulata Etuerton deJ. 



27. Halesidota maculata Harris. Probably the species on the chestnut 



at Providence. 



28. Datana ministra (Drury). (Beutenmiiller, Can. Ent., xx, 17.) 



29. Datana contracta Walk. (Beutenmiiller) See p. 151. 



30. Eroncea minuta Reakirt. 



31. Parasa fraterna Grote. Miss Emily L. Morton has bred this Coch- 



lidian from the chestnut. 



32. Parasa chloris (H. Sch.) See p. 141. On the chestnut (Reakirt). 



33. Phobetron pithecium (A. and S.) (Beutenmiiller). 



34. Orgyia sp. 



35. Telea polyphemus Cramer. Half a dozen larvae, of different ages, 



occurred on the leaves. Providence, Sept. 18. 



36. Pyrophila pyramidoldes (jtrote. (Beutenmiiller). 



37. Prionoxystus robinke (Peck). (Beutenmiiller). 



38. A Notodontian larva. 



39. Aiiisota stigma (Fnhr.) (Beutenmiiller). 



40. Anisota senatoria Abbot and Smith. Lives on the chinquapin, ac- 



cording to Abbot and Smith. 



41. Pysche confederata Grote. (Beutenmiiller.) 



42. Apatelaovata Grote. See p. 169. I have found the larva at Provi- 



dence. 



43. Apatela americana Harris. (Beutenmiiller). 



44. Apatela hammamelis Gueu. (Beutenmiiller). 



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