REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST, 1898 165 
The recently hatched larva is a pale yellowish or whitish creature with 
long, irregular hairs. As it feeds, increases in size, and casts its skin 
from time to time, one after the other of the characteristics of the full 
grown larva is assumed. 












O.HEIDEMAN. S.C. 
Fig. 1. NOTOLOPHUS LEUCOSTIGMA. a, larva; 4, female pupa; c, male pupa ; d, e, male moth; 
J, female moth; g, same ovipositing ; 4,egg mass; z, male cocoons; 4, female cocoons, with 
moths laying eggs—all slightly enlarged (after Howard [Division entomology], U. S. Dep’t 
agriculture, year book, 1895). 
When maturity is reached, the larvae spin their thin cocoons in the 
crevices of the bark (fig. 1, 7), interweaving their long hairs, and within 
this shelter transform to yellowish white pupae more or less shaded with 
dark brown or black (fig. 1, 4, ¢). 
The difference between the sexes in the adult stage is strikingly shown 
by comparing in figure 1, @ and ¢, illustrations of the male, with /, that 
of the female. The former is a beautiful moth with large feathery anten- 
nae, the legs tufted, and the wings and body delicately marked with 
