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yellow, divided in stripes by black lines and markings; whitish 

 medially. Legs black. 



The caterpillar is a very active feeder, eating at first the leaves, 

 and subsequently, when nearly mature, the blossoms. It enters the 

 ground for pupation, where it constructs an earth cocoon, the grains 

 of which are spun together with silk, similar to that of C. intermedia* 

 The imago escapes from its cocoon through a round opening made at 

 one end. It is very alert in the breeding cage, rendering it difficult 

 to pin it without the aid of chloroform. It has been captured by 

 Mr. Meske, at Sharon Springs, N&quot;. Y., on the 21st of July. 



Several of the larvae were collected at Schoharie, in 1857, nearly 

 mature, in the early part of October ; taken also September 8th, 1859 ; 

 and also September 1st, nearly full grown, feeding on the blossoms 

 of Solidago Canadensis, and in 1873, on the same food-plant, in 

 Albany. 



Cucullia asteroides Gueme. 



Head subrotund, flattened in front, green (shade of leaf of food- 

 plant), with paler green reticulations; clypeus bordered with green 

 ish-white, and a lateral curved spot of the same color in which are 

 the five ocelli ; labrum and palpi pale green ; a few short white hairs. 



Body subcylindrical, tapering moderately at the extremities, 

 smooth, shining, with minute white hairs visible with a lens in the 

 usual locations; conspicuously striped in green and yellow, as fol 

 lows : ground color green ; a broad dorsal stripe of bright yellow 

 extending from the head to the anus, and a somewhat narrower sub- 

 stigmatal one of duller yellow, approaching orange, margined beneath 

 with white; on the sides are five green stripes defined by six black 

 lines, of which the stigmatal line is interrupted at and near the 

 incisures, and so inflated upon the stigmata as sometimes to coalesce 

 with the corresponding portions of the suprastigmatal black line ; of 

 the five green stripes, the second and fourth are of a yellow-green 

 shade, the first (subdorsal) of a deep green, and the third and fifth 

 of a paler hue. Ventral region with a median line of greenish-white, 

 having two yellow-green lines on each side. 



Legs and prolegs green, the terminal pair long and extending back 

 ward. Stigmata white, acutely elliptical, having their inferior half 

 lying within the yellow substigmatal stripe. 



* Twenty-third Report on the N. Y. State Cabinet, 1873, p. 214. 



