CATALOGUE OF INSECTS. 395 



Family LIPARIDJE. 



These are the "tussock moths," sombre gray species of moderate size, with 

 broad wiugs, broadly pectinated male antenna;, and long hairy fore-legs, which 

 when at rest are stretched out forward. In the genus Notolophus, to which our 

 only injurious species belongs, the female is wingless. The caterpillars are 

 brightly colored and have truncated dorsal tufts or brushes of hair, and long 

 pencils at or near the extremities. 



The "white marked tussock moth " is double brooded, the wingless female 

 laying the eggs in a mass on the cocoon from which she has just emerged. 

 The eggs are held together by a snow-white frothy mass which hardens and 

 becomes brittle, and thus the winter is passed. Gathering these egg masses 

 from the trees in winter will save injury the following summer. The feeding 

 larvae succumb readily to paris green or other arsenites in their early stages. 

 The second brood, occurring in midsummer, may also be reached by gathering 

 and destroying the cocoons which are formed on trees, fences or any other con- 

 venient projection. 



NOTOLOPHTJS Germ. = ORG-YIA Ochs. 



N. defmita Pack. Fort Lee (Bt). Lake Hopatcong (Pm). Probably occurs 

 throughout the northern part of the State. The larva is quite a general 

 feeder. 



N. leucostigma S. and A. The "Vaporer" or "White-marked Tussock 

 Moth." The caterpillar is the most common of the city shade tree pests, 

 and is abundant in proportion to the size of the city and the number of 

 sparrows. It occurs rarely in small towns or villages or where the spar- 

 rows are not dominant. 



OLENE Hbn. = PARORGYIA Pack. 



O. cinnamomea G. and R. =.parallela G. and R. Jersey City (Sm), Fort 

 Lee, Greenwood Lake (Bt), Newark (Soc), Hopatcong (Pm). Larva on 

 oak, apple, plum, walnut, horse chestnut, &c. 



O. achatina A. and S. Near Newark in July : larva on the the usual orchard 

 trees ; also oak, hickory, chestnut, &c. 



O. leucophaea A. and S. = clintonii G. and R. Newark (Soc), Morris 

 Plains (Bt), Greenwood Lake (Dyar), Hopatcong (Pm). Larva on per- 

 simmon, oak, hickory. 



Family SYNTOMIDJE. 



Rather slightly built, small or moderate sized moths, black and yellow in 

 color, with functional mouth parts, pectinated male antennae and rather long, 



