THE) SADDLED PROMINENT. 313 



DISCUSSION OF NAME: "SADDLED PROMINENT." 

 Since Walker named the species in 1855, Heterocampa gutti- 

 vitta has not attracted enough attention to have been given a 

 common name. It has not, to be sure, lacked variety in classical 

 designations, having been discussed under at least five generic 

 and seven (partly by error) specific names.* 



The thoroughgoing attack which it has made on hardwood 

 forests from New York to Maine the past two seasons, how- 

 ever, brings it conspicuously before the public and the lack of 

 a common name is an inconvenience. This inconvenience was 

 met tentatively this season both by the Maine Experiment Sta- 

 tion and the Maine Department of Agriculture by the designa- 

 tion "beech prominent," a name very naturally suggested by the 

 noticeable preference of this insect for the beech for the past 

 two seasons in Maine. There is, however, an obvious objec- 

 tion to dubbing a more or less general feeder with the name of 

 its favorite plant, and "beech prominent" did not for this reason 

 seem desirable. 



"Antlered maple caterpillar" ** has been suggested, but for 



* Heierocampa guttivitta (Walker). 



Cecrita guittivitta Walk., Cat. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., v. p. 992, 1855. 

 Drynwnia mucorea Herr.-Schaeffer. Samml. aussereur. Schmett., fig. 514, 

 1856. Lochmxus cinereus Pack., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., iii, p. 372, 1864. 

 Misogada sobria Walk., Cat. Lep. Br. Mus., xxxii, p. 450, 1865. Hetero- 

 campa doubledayi Scudder, in Harris Ent. Corresp., p. 134, 1867. French, 

 Can. Ent., xii, p. 83, 1880. Sixth Ann. Rep. S. 111. Normal Univ., p. 65i, 

 1880. Packard, Bull 7, U. S. Ent. Comm. Ins. Inj. Forest Trees, p. 40, 1881 

 (Quotes Frerch's description). H. guttivitta Grote, New Check List N. 

 Amer. Moths, p. 19, 1882. H. pulverea Pack., Fifth Rep. U. S. Ent. 

 Comm., p. 159, p. 397, 1890. Lochmaeus olivatus Pack., Fifth Rep. U. S. 

 Ent. Comm., p. 39, 1890. H. pulverea, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xxiv, 

 p. 548, 1890 (H. pulverea by error). H. guittivitta Dyar, Psyche, vi, p. 

 178, 1891. (Fourth and last larval stages; cocoon and pupa). H. 

 guttivitta Smith, List. Lep. Bor. Amer., p. 31, 1891. Kirby, Syn. Cat. 

 Lep. Het., i, p. 564, 1892. Cecrita guttivitta Neum. and Dyar, Trans. 

 Amer. Ent. Soc., xxi, p. 207, 1894; Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., ii, p. 117, Sept., 

 1894. H. guttivitta Packard. Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., VII, pp. 230-235. 

 Plates. 1896. H. guttivitta Beutenmiiller, Bombycine Moths ol Vicinity 

 of New York City. Bui. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., X, p. 425, 1898. //. 

 guttivitta Lugger, Univ. of Minn. Agric. Exp. Sta. Bui. 61. p. 171 

 (quotes Beutenmiiller's description) 1898. 



'* Dr. E. P. Felt, Journal of Economic Entomology, Vol. I, No. 2, 

 p. 150. (Also N. Y. State Ent. 23 Rep't pp 21-23 which appeared while 

 this present bulletin was in press). 



