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hazel, ash, willow and other plants. It is a very general 
feeder, hence varies in this respect from most of the other 
prominents. The hairy caterpillar is very conspicuous, and 
easily detected, as it feeds exposed on the leaves. 
Prof. Beutenmueller gives the following detailed descrip- 
tion of it: ‘‘Head dirty white. Body creamy white witha 
broken black dorsal stripe on which are tufts of hairs of the 
same color. A black spot on each segment along the sides. 
Body covered with long, white, flossy hairs directed back- 
wards, except those on the anterior segments, which are 
directed forwards. On the back of each of the second, third 
and eleventh segments is a long, mouse-colored pencil, tipped 
with white at the ends. Abdominal legs black, the extrem- 
ities pinkish. Thoracic feet black. Sometimes the body is 
pale yellow with the hairs bright sulphur yellow, with the 
pencils ferruginous, tipped with black. Sometimes the body 
is black with the hairs Maltese gray. Length 45 mm.” 
Fig 103. Apatelodes borrefacta A.& S. 
Moru:—Fore-wings ash-gray, clouded outwardly with 
smoky brown. Across the basal third are two brown, par- 
allel, wavy, narrow, transverse lies, and two similar ones 
across the outer third. On the inner margin near the base 
is a deep brown patch, and a small white spot beneath the 
apex. Hind-wings dull reddish, sometimes washed with 
ashen-gray, and with two ill-defined, transverse lines, the 
outer one whitish and marked at the inner angle with two 
deep brown dashes. Head and thorax ashen-gray, the lat- 
ter with a deep brown band across the posterior part. 
