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segment, the posterior portion being green. The head and two tho- 

 racic segments, with two pairs of legs, are shown at (7, lateral view. 

 The dorsal surface is darker yellowish and green, the dorsal line being 

 conspicuous dark green. It is bordered each side b}' yellow, which 

 extends to the rows of black piliferous warts. Each wart is sur- 

 rounded more or less irregularly with grayish yellow and bears a yel- 

 lowish brown hair. The second and third thoracic segments are tinged 

 with blue, particularly about the warts. Altogether the coloring, 

 together with the piliferous spots, impart to the larva a somewhat 

 more striped appearance than the illustration shows. The lateral 

 line is wide and very pale 3'^ellow. Ventral surface pale green, the 

 legs pale j^ellow. Surface moderately hairy, the hairs proceeding 

 from the black warts at the anterior portion of the body ])eing light 



Fig. 28. — Loxoslege obliterans: a. female moth; b, penultimate stage of larva; c, last stage of larva; d, 

 head and thoracic segments of same from side; e, third abdominal segment;/, work of larva; g, 

 cocoon of hibernating individuals — a, 2J times natural size; b, r, g, 2 times; d, e, more enlarged; /, 

 natural size (original). 



brown, those from the posterior portion darker brown. The last 

 segment bears no ])lack spots, but is quite hairy. One of the 

 abdominal segments is shown, lateral view, at e. The form is C3iin- 

 drical and the folds of each segment are pronounced. The length is 

 about six or seven times the width. The figure shows the larva in the 

 somewhat contracted position as.sumed when at rest. Length when 

 fully mature, lS-20™"'; width, g.T-S""'". 



When the larvte are full fed and have been for half a day or more 

 without fresh food the ground color becomes almost uniform light 

 yellow. At this period the striated effect is nmch diminished, although 

 the })lack spots become more con-spicuous, each one now showing a 

 fine light ring about the insertion of the hairs. 



