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is light greenish, much darker, almost black, along the abdomen be- 

 hind the hump to the rear end. Head light chestnut. 



After a moult on the 14th, the larva was over half an inch long, 

 pale brown with a cross black band and hump over the 3rd pair of 

 prolegs. Head flattened, body color much like the larva of Catocala 

 cara. On the i6th, the larvae were about three-fourths of an inch 

 long, very light brown, almost cream color, striped indistinctly. A 

 dark reddish brown band 'crosses the body over the 3rd pair of pro- 

 legs. The hump slight. Head as in cara. 



Moulted on the 17th. On the 28th, the larvae of both faustina and 

 verecunda were about grown. One of the latter was very light with 

 a tinge of brown. Another, a decided brown with pink tubercles. 

 Lateral setae very short. The cross band over the 3rd pair of pro- 

 legs very pale, obsolete on top. The dorsal hump small, pale straw 

 color. Head as in cara, flattened and lobed above with yellow-brown 

 lobes, behind which is a dash of black to the mouth, the dashes unit- 

 ing above. Under side of the body white with the central row of 

 black spots. Pinkish around the spots. 



All of the verecunda larvae except two or three, could not slip 

 their tough skins at the last moult and so died. Either the food was 

 not damp enough, or 'the larvae lacked strength. The first larva of 

 ■vereciinda began spinning on June 2nd and was two inches long, light 

 brown with yellow tinge. Very short lateral setae. Tubercles red- 

 brown but dull. The longitudinal lines indistinct. The hump over 

 the 3rd pair of prolegs small and with a light straw colored top. The 

 cross band behind this tubercle, or hump, is only slightly darker than 

 the general color, and that only on the side. The crest over the 8th 

 abdominal segment slight with a dark line behind it that runs down 

 on the side to the spiracles. Spiracles small with a dark ring about 

 each. Head yellowish, strongly so at the lobes above. A dark encir- 

 cling line surrounds the face. Under side of the body greenish 

 white, with a midventral row of black spots with a slightly pinkish 

 border. Larvae fed on willow. No distinction between the larvae 

 of faustina and verecunda. The first larva of faustina cocooned on 

 June 5th. On the 3rd of July, one pupa of verecunda gave a moth, 

 twenty-seven days after beginning to spin. No other chrysalids of 

 either faustina or verecunda gave imagoes. 



Catocala residua. 



Eggs of Catocala residua hatched on May 4th, the same day that 

 the verecunda eggs hatched. On May 7th, before first moult, the lit- 

 tle caterpillars were 1-5 to % of an inch long, light reddish brown 

 with small darker head. Slow growth. On the loth, larvae still 

 small, color dark gray, striped longitudinally with white. Head 

 small, dark. 



