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crinkly hair, a mixture of light, chocolate brown and white, blackish on costa; 

 outer margin yellow; fore legs blackish with white at apex of tibia. 25-35 mm. 

 (H 38:25.) 



Caterpillar with little, curled tufts on each side of tail. 



The moth occurs normally from Maryland south. A stray has been found at 

 Ithaca, New York. 



II. Male antennce tiro- thirds as long as fore iving, female orer one-third; 

 cocoon oval; larva without curled tufts of hair at tail. (Lagoa). 



2. M. pyxidifera Smith and Abbot. Wholly ochre yellow. 25-35 mm. H 38:41. 

 Caterpillar grayish white when young, gray in last stage; on oak. 



Southern States. 



3. M. crispata Packard. Cream color; crinkly hair black and brown, most of it 

 along the costa. Fore legs pale with black tips. 25-35 mm. (H 38: 23). 



Caterpillar cream white when young, dull red shading into smoky gray in 

 front in the last stage; on various shrubs and trees. 



In aberration grisea Barnes and McDunnough, the ground color is mouse gray 

 with a contrasting pale fringe. 



Massachusetts and southward. New York: Onteora Mountain, New Baltimore. 

 Bethlehem, Karner, Albany, Khinebeck, Poughkeepsie, New Windsor, Katonali, 

 Staten Island; Brooklyn, Woodhaven, and elsewhere, Long Island. 



2. NORAPE Walker 

 (Carama Walker; Lagoa, subgenus Ulosota Grote) 



Frenulum well developed. 



1. N. ovina Sepp. Pure white, with a little crinklv hair. .30 mm. (cretata 

 Grote, pura Butler). (H38:22.) 



Larva with sparse tufts of hair and contrastingly spotted body, on Celtis. 

 District of Columbia and southward. 



Family 7. EUCLEID-ffi 



(Cochlidiidae, Limacodidae) 

 (The slug caterpillars) 



Normally small, stumpy-winged moths with deep, often woolly vesti- 

 ture. Head small and retracted, palpi fairly well developed, tongue 

 and maxillary palpi much reduced. Thorax of low type, with meta- 

 scutum narrowly continuous. Fore wing with two, and hind wing with 

 three, completely preserved anals, base of media preserved, sometimes 

 forked. Venation complete or nearly so ; Cu 4-branched, R 3 , R 4 , and R 5 

 stalked or united in fore wings; Sc and R in contact or fused for a 

 short distance at or before middle of cell in hind wing, rarely merely 

 connected by the apparent crossvein R^ 



Egg of the flat type, very thin and waferlike except in Monoleuca. 

 Larva slug-like, with the prolegs replaced by suckers. Head large but 

 permanently concealed in the thorax, save for a slit in the under side of 

 the prothorax to allow feeding; head lightly chitinized, the vertex cleft 

 almost to the front. Labrum with ii much higher and smaller than i. 

 Larvae in primitive forms with long, hairy, more or less stiff lappets, 



