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 Family LASIOCAMPIDAE 



These are stout, hairy, medium size, with a small retracted head, pectinated antennae 

 and short tongues. The wings are short and broad usually brown or grey, with parallel medium 

 crosslines. The caterpillars are the "lappet" or "tent caterpillars" and in some seasons occur 

 in enormous numbers entirely defoliating great tracts of orchards and forests. 



TOLYPE Hubn. 



T. laricis Fitch. Bergerville (Fy); Montreal (B); food plants: larch, hemlock, pine. 



T. velleda StolL Cowansville (Fy); St. Johns IX (C); St. Hilaire IX (C); Montreal IX (W); 

 Hull IX (Fy); food plants: apple, poplar, lilac, oak, elm, maple, cherry. 



MALACOSOMA Hubn. 



IVI. americana Fabr. East Bolton VII (W); Cowansville (Fy); St. Hilaire VII (W); Montreal 

 VII (W); Chateauguay VII (J); Shawbridge VII (W); Newaygo^VIIJSo); food plants: 

 apple, choke cherry, hawthorn. 



Fig. 18. 

 Malacosoma americana. Female and pupa. 



M. disstria Hubn. Levis (Fy); Windsor Mills VII (W); East Bolton VII (W); Cowansville 

 (Fy); Montreal VII (W); Shawbridge VII (W); St. Agathe VII (W); Newaygo VII (So); 

 food plants: forest trees except conifers. 



EPICNAPTERA Ram. 



E. americana Harr. St. Johns VII (C); St. Hilaire V-VI (W); Montreal V-VI (W); the variety 

 ferruginea Pack, occurs with type; food plants: choke cherry, apple, oak, beech, ash, poplar. 



Family DREPANIDAE 



Small to medium sized moths, with broad wings, the front pair usually falcate giving them 

 the popular name of "hook-tips." 



[ EUDEILINEA Pack. 



E. herminlata Guen. Levis (Fy); food plant: dogwood. 



