OWLET-MOTHS. ug | 
full grown caterpillar is pale green, with cream-colored 
spots and a broad, cream-colored lateral band along the 
sides. The large head is glassy-green with white mottlings 
Fig. 172.—Xylina antennata Walk. From Div. of Entomology, 
Dep. of Agriculture. 
at sides and top, and pearly-white lips; the legs are whitish; 
the prolegs concolorous with the under side of the caterpil- 
lar, which is a glaucous-gray. When the caterpillar has 
reached a length of about one inch and a fourth it is full 
grown and now enters the ground in which it forms a very 
thin cocoon of silken threads, inside of which it changes 
to a mahogany-brown pupa. Fig. 172 shows moth and 
caterpillar. 
The moth is of a dull ash-gray color; the fore-wmgs 
are variegated with darker gray or grayish-brown. When 
at rest the wings are folded lengthwise and appear almost 
parallel and like a flattened roof, giving the insect an 
elongate appearance. 
‘BETHUNE’S XYLINA. 
(Xylina Bethunei G. & R.). 
This moth is found in large numbers with the preceeding 
one, and as it feeds in its larval stage upon the same useful 
plants it is here mentioned. The moth is very different in 
coloration, though otherwise like antennata. The color 
varies greatly, some moths being almost white, or brownish- 
white, with slightly darker markings, while others are much 
