REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST, 1898 



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The recently hatched larva is a pale yellowish or whitish creature with 

 long, irregular hairs. As it feeds, increases in size, and casts its skin 

 from time to time, one after the other of the characteristics of the full 

 grown larva is assumed. 



Fig. I. NOTOLOPHUS LEUcosTiGMA. rt, larva ; (5, female pupa ; c, male pupa ; d^ e, male moth; 

 y, female moth ; g, same ovipositing- ; A, egg mass ; z', male cocoons ; k, female cocoons, with 

 moths laying eggs — all slightly enlarged (after Howard [Division entomology], U. S. Dep't 

 agriculture, year book, 1895). 



When maturity is reached, the larvae spin their thin cocoons in the 

 crevices of the bark (hg. i, /), interweaving their long hairs, and within 

 this shelter transform to yellowish white pupae more or less shaded with 

 dark brown or black (fig. i, b, c). 



The difference between the sexes in the adult stage is strikingly shown 

 by comparing in figure i, ^ and e, illustrations of the male, with /, that 

 of the female. The former is a beautiful moth with large feathery anten- 

 nae, the legs tufted, and the wings and body delicately marked with 



