CATERPILLARS OF THE FIR. 



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pretty caterpillars in endeavoring to brush off one which was crawling 

 on the back of my neck ; the hairs were thus forced into the skin and 



Fig. 295. — The tussock moth; a, female; e, male ; c, female pupa; d, male pupa; 

 b, freshly-hatched larva. Nat. size.— After Klley. 



caused, as the result, the skin to smart severely for forty-eight hours. 

 The female was first seen flying at Brunswick, Maine, Aug. 29, 



9. Olygia versicolor Grote. 



This species occurred on the fir, Aug. 28-31, at Brunswich, Maine. 



Larva. — Head rather large, as wide as protliorax, blackish, not striped but marbled 

 with black. Seen from above the body is of nearly uniform thickness. Along the 

 the back a series of broad triangular black patches, lined on each side with silver, the 

 silver streaks making a series of sets of oblique streaks. The hump at the end of the 

 body is high, and lined with silver on each side. The ground color is a rich black- 

 brown. Length, 13™"". 



10. The white-lined caterpillar. 

 Order Lepidoptera ; family Noctuid^. 



Feeding on the leaves of the fir in August in Maine, a larva of the usual Noctuid 

 form. Head nearly as wide as the body, smooth ; body rather thick, smooth, pale 

 pea-green. A dorsal somewhat broken snow-white line, and two wider subdorsal 

 ones. A broken bright-red lateral line, edged below with white and yellowish. Ends 

 of all the legs reddish. Length 22™"\ 



11. A noctuid larva. 



Order Lepidoptera ; family Noctuid^. 



Feeding on the leaves in August in Maine, a cylindrical noctuid larva with ten 

 pairs of abdominal legs. Head of moderate size, as wide as the prothorax ; body 

 thicker just in front of the middle. Segments of the body rather convex ; prevailing 

 color pale horn-brown, mottled with yellowish or reddish brown; with four black 

 rounded button-like tubercles arranged in a trapezoid on the top of each segment. 

 Length, IS^'^\ 



12. The fir paraphia. 



Paraphia deplanaria Guen^e. 



We have three species of Paraphia, two of which feed in the larval 

 state on coniferous trees, Mr. William Saunders having bred P. suhato- 

 maria from the pine, on which it feeds in early summer, the moth ap- 



