Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 209 
The little nebulosa worms were reddish brown with the 
head a little lighter than the body, but no further notes were 
obtained on this species as the little “crawlers” died without 
eating, although they were offered foliage of walnut, shellbark 
hickory, pecan, honey locust, plum, willow, sycamore, grape, 
linden, ash, poplar, apple, coffee bean, butter nut, elm, bur oak, 
and all of which they refused. 
Larvae of Catocala flebilis readily ate hickory and pecan 
and were light brown, with a small, almost black head, just 
after hatching. 
On the 18th, eight days later, these caterpillars were over half an inch 
long, dark or lead color lined with lighter longitudinally. Head a little 
darker than the rest of the body. The V’s outlined middorsally. 
On the a2tst, the larvae were nearly an inch long, light gray, almost 
white with a darker cross band over the latter half of the 5th abdominal 
segment, over the 3d pair of prolegs. On the top of the first and second 
abdominal segments are two black dots and two short black dashes. 
Head with gray and black dashes. Tubercles black dot-like and each 
set with a bristle. 
On the 25th the larvae of flebilis were one and a fourth inches long, 
light gray, almost white with black “W’s” on the dorsal side of ‘the Ist 
and 2d abdominal segments and a cross band of black or very dark 
brown on the top of the 5th abdominal segment. The underside of the 
body whitish green with dark brown, almost black midventral spots. 
Head dead-leaf brown without lateral dash. True and prolegs flesh 
color. 
On the 30th, after moulting the day before, the larva was nearly two 
inches long, mottled gray with a lighter middorsal row of “V” spots, 
not very distinct. Tubercles reddish and studded with bristles. No 
lateral row of setae. A double black “V” on the dorsal side of the 
Ist and 2d abdominal segments and the cross black band over the 5th 
abdominal segment broken on top by the middorsal row of “V’s.” 
On June 3d the larva was full two inches long and almost white with 
markings as described on May 30th. The head a chestnut brown with 
white streaks. 
On June 6th, the caterpillars were from 2% to 2% inches long, 
light gray, almost as white as flour. Underside white with greenish 
tinge. Mid-ventral row of black spots. The two pairs of double dorsal 
“V’s” on the Ist and 2d abdominal segments, black. A black cross band 
covers the dorsal side of the lateral half of the 5th abdominal segment 
but is separated middorsally by an elliptical spot. Tubercles red-brown. 
A few scattered lateral bristles or setae. True legs and head chestnut 
