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NOTCH WING 

 Ennomos magnarius Guen. 



The peculiar, linear series of polished, greenish brown or 

 bronze colored eggs of this species on apple and pear have been 

 received from time to time during recent years and mostly from 

 Hudson river localities. There have been no records of serious 

 injuries by the caterpillars, though this is a common form and 

 a somewhat general feeder. It is widely distributed, having been 

 recorded from northern Maine west to the Northwest Territory. 

 It appears to be closely related to the European E. a u t u m n a r i a 

 Wernb. 



Description. The individual eggs are polished, greenish 

 brown or bronze colored, have a length of 1.25 mm, a diameter 

 of .7 mm, subrhomboidal in shape and are deposited transversely 

 upon the flat surface of bark side by side in linear rows. An 

 exceptionally fine series has a length of four and one-half inches 

 (plate 8, figure 2). 



The newly hatched caterpillar is a yellowish, dark green 

 looper with a length about 2.25 mm. The large, orange yellow 

 head has a diameter nearly twice that of the body, the labrum 

 and antennae being whitish. The cervical shield is moderately 

 large, yellowish, with a deep, median, subquadrate impression, 

 the latter fuscous greenish. The dorsum of the remaining thor- 

 acic and body segments is mostly dark olive green with a rather 

 conspicuous lateral margin of bright yellow, the latter extending 

 and somewhat indeterminate on the anal segments. True legs 

 yelloAvish orange, venter yellowish green, the prolegs mostly 

 yellowish or yellowish green. 



According to Beutenmueller the second stage is a pale green, 

 smooth, somewhat shining and without any visible mark- 



