LEPIDOI'TERA. 



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Dryocampa rubicunda. 



resembling the female in coloring, and in having the wings 

 speckled. The larva differs from the other species of Ani- 

 sota in having long spines on the dorsal aspect of the third 

 thoracic and each abdominal segment in addition to the 

 much longer spines on the mesothorax. It is of a bright 

 tawny or orange color, with a dusky stripe along its back 

 and dusky bands along its sides. 



The Rosy Dryocampa, Dryocampa rubicunda (Dry-o- 

 cim'pa ru-bi-cun'da).— The wings of this moth (Fig. 428) 

 are pale yellow, banded 

 with rose-color. The dis- 

 tribution of the color varies 

 greatly in different speci- 

 mens. In some the pink 

 of the fore wings predomi- 

 nates, the yellow being re- 

 duced to a broad discal 

 band, while in one variety 

 the ground-color is yellowish white and the pink is reduced 

 to a shade at the base and a narrow stripe outside the mid- 

 dle. The hind wings may be entirely yellow, or may have a 

 pink band outside the middle. The expanse of wings in 

 the male is one and one half to one and three fourths inches ; 

 in the female, two inches or more. 



The larva of this species is known as the Green-striped 

 Maple-worm, and is sometimes a serious pest on soft-maple 

 shade-trees. It measures when full grown about one and 

 one half inches. It is pale yellowish green, striped above 

 with eight very light, yellowish-green lines, alternating with 

 seven of a darker green, inclining to black. There are two 

 prominent horns on the second thoracic segment, and two 

 rows of spines on each side of the body, one above and one 

 below the spiracles. And on the eighth and ninth abdomi- 

 nal segments there are four prominent dorsal spines. The 

 species is one- or two-brooded, and winters in the pupa 

 state. 



