INSECT ENEMIES OF EASTERN FORESTS 
KEY TO LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVAE—Continued 
Bye Geometers from 1 to nearly 2 inches in length when full grown— 
Continued 
Poplar and willow—July-—September; light green; red stripe 
each side of head; body with a more or less broken red 
stripe on each side; and diffuse reddish patches on dorsum; 
length 14% inches____ Deilinea erythremaria (Guen.), p. 428. 
Sassafras and tulip poplar—June and July; possibly a second 
generation in the South; head small, reddish brown; body 
stout, yellowish to dark brown; marked with many fine 
irregular wavy lines; length about 1% inches : 
Epimecis virginarta (Cram.), p. 430. 
Geometers 2 or more inches in length when full grown. 
Ash, birch, ete.—July—August; yellowish green tinged with 
red; head small, bilobed; abdomen has a swollen area on 
dorsum of segments 2 to 5, and venter of third, 2 conical 
tubercles on dorsum of eighth; length 2 to 24 inches 
Deuteronomos magnarius (Guen.), p. 436. 
Cherry (wild), maple, poplar, ete-——June—August; purplish 
brown; head rounded; second thoracic and fourth abdom- 
inal segments swollen above, and tubercles on the dorsum 
of fifth and ninth abdominal segments rather prominent; 
length about 2% inches 
Abbottana clemataria (A. & §.), p. 437. 
Willow, poplar, wild cherry, sweetfern, locust, ete.—July— 
October; head deeply cleft, flat in front, granulated; body 
greenish to reddish brown; front of cervical shield angular; 
anal claspers large___.Amphidasis cognataria Guen., p. 432. 
Willow, elm, maple, poplar, ete —May—July; vinous in color; 
prothorax has four whitish spots; body marked with many 
wavy lines and creamy-white spots 
Lycia ursaria (Wlkr.), p. 432. 
33. Some common species are naked and without prominent tubercles 
on body, but each bears five pairs of abdominal legs: 
Ash, apple, oak, rhodendron, willow, ete——April to early in 
July; head pale, mottled with brown; body light green, with 
five whitish lines; the median line narrow, subdorsal ones 
somewhat broken, and stigmatal broad and extending 
downward onto anal prolegs; skin with minute white dots; 
lengthelte inches 22 2-525 5 Orthosta hibiscit (Guen.), p. 394. 
Beech, sugar maple, and apple—June—August; light green, some- 
times with a bluish cast; head large, banded with red; body 
smooth, usually with saddle-shaped patch of reddish brown; 
markings variable; length 1% inches 
Heterocampa guttivitta (Wlkr.), p. 408. 
Beech, oak, basswood, elm, ete.—July—October; head large, a 
blackish and a whitish band on each side; body smooth yel- 
lowish green; a pale median line with more or less red-brown 
on each side; markings variable; length about 1% inches 
Heterocampa manteo (Dbldy.). p. 404. 
Greenbrier— August—October; black with broken white lines 
and blotches; venter grayish green; length about 114 inches 
Phosphila turbulenta Hbn., p. 395. 
Hemlock, larch, and spruee—May—July; head yellowish; 
body light green, a pale median stripe, also a subdorsa] and 
stigmatal stripe on each side; the stigmatal stripe bordered 
above with red; length 1% inches 
Feralia jocosa (Guen.), p. 394. 
Maple, ash, apple, ete.—May—July; pale green; head with 
yellowish tint; body has a broad whitish dorsal stripe, each 
side a narrower subdorsal and a broad irregular stigmatal 
stripe; skin minutely dotted with white; length about 1% 
TNCHES 3 ees ay ee ee Graptolitha antennata (Wlkr.), p. 394. 
Oak, ete—May to October; pale pea green; head large, 
rounded; body with a yellowish subdorsal stripe; spiracles 
red; length about 134 inches 
Nadata gibbosa (A. & 8.), p. 400. 
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