THE LARCH LAPPET MOTH. 



897 



9. Apatela sp. 



Observed near Fabyau's, on the Cherry Mt. road, N. H., September 10. 

 It had been ichueumonized. 



Larva. — Head large, wider than the thoracic segments ; with a black curvilinear 

 stripe on each side, not meeting its mate on the vertex. Body tapering rapidly to 

 the anal legs, which are smaller than the other abdominal legs and held out backward. 

 Supra-anal plate moderately large, rounded, somewhat pointed at the apex. Body 

 white, with a very broad bright yellow dorsal band over half as wide as the body, 

 and inclosing on each segment a large transversely deep oblong pink spot ; the pro- 

 thoracic segment stained on the front edge with pink. Length 4">'". 



10. Noctuid caterpillar. 



This larva occurred on the hackmatack in Maine June 16 ; it was a 

 young one, and died in confinement. 



Larva. — Body moderately thick, (legs: 6 thoracic; lOabdominal), of the usual noctuid 

 form, but with no peculiar markings. Head full, of the usual shape, nearly as wide 

 as the body, yellowish green. Body of a delicate pale green, tinged with yellow. 

 A dorsal firm white stripe and two subdorsal rather narrower white stripes. On top 

 of each abdominal segment are four white warts arranged in an oblong (transversly) 

 square. Below the subdorsal line is a broken white line, and below this an infra- 

 stigmatal white line. All the feet concolorous with each other and the head. Length 

 12™™. 



11. Amphidaays cognataria Guen. 



A large Geometrid occurred on the hackmatack at Brunswick August 

 31. It began to pupate September 14. See also p. 405. 



Larva. — Very large, body cylindrical, thick. Head rather deeply cleft, allied to 

 other cleft-head ones, but head not so deeply cleft, nor is the body cleft, and it is two 

 to three times as large as the other species. Head pale brown, colored in front, dark be- 

 hind on the vertex, suture of apex of clypeus blackish. Head large, as wide as the 

 prothoracic segment, the latter turned up in front, the sides being angulated. Body 

 smooth, finely granulated with whitish and gray. A pair of small not very conspicu- 

 ous slender tubercles on the sides of the fifth abdominal segment. A little lighter 

 than the rest of body, and concolorous with the two diverging rough elongated warts 

 on the penultimate segment. The body itself light mud-brown, with a slight red- 

 dish lilac tint, with two rows of small white subdorsal whitish spots, disappearing on 

 thoracic and two last segments. Supra-anal plate large, long, acute, granulated with 

 white on the surface. The two anal legs rather broad, the spine large and sharp. 

 Length 40™™ ; thickness 8™™. 



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