Noctuidse 



occurs abundantly about the city of Laramie. It is represented 

 upon Plate XXV, Fig. 8, by a female specimen. 



Genus PLEROMA Smith 



(i) Pleroma obliquata Smith, Plate XXV, Fig. ii, $ . 

 The species of this genus are all found in the western half of our 

 territory. 



Genus LITHOMOIA Hiibner 



(i) Lithomoia germana Morrison, Plate XXV, Fig. 12,?. 

 This is not at all an uncommon species in the northern Atlantic 

 States. 



Genus XYLINA Ochsenheimer 



An extensive genus found both in the New World and 

 the Old. Thirty-five species are attributed to it as found in 

 our fauna. Of this number ten are depicted in this book. 



(1) Xylina disposita Morrison, Plate XXV, Fig. 13. ? . (The 

 Green-gray Pinion.) 



The moth is found in the northern Atlantic States. 



(2) Xylina petulca Grote, Plate XXV, Fig. 9, $ . (The 

 Wanton Pinion.) 



Not a common species, having the same range as the preceding. 



(3) Xylina antennata Walker. (The Ashen Pinion.) 

 Syn. cinerea Riley. 



The moth is a native of the Atlantic States. The larva feeds 

 upon the apple, poplar, hickory, and other deciduous trees. It 



has the habit of 

 boring into apples 

 and peaches, and 

 the galls which are 

 found upon oaks. 

 The caterpillar is 

 green, marked with 

 a cream-colored lat- 

 eral stripe, and 

 spots of the same 

 color. It pupates 

 beneath the soil in 

 a loose, filmy cocoon of silk, to which the particles of earth are 

 adherent. Pupation takes place at the end of June, or the 



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Fig. 117. 



-Xylina antennata. a. Larva boring 

 into peach, b. Moth. 



