10 BULLETIN 250, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
GREENBRIER (Smilax rotundifolia L.). 
No experiments were conducted on this species at the laboratory. 
Observations in the field indicate that this species is seldom attacked. 
SWEETBRIER (Rosa rubiginosa L.). 
Mr. Schaffner found larve in the first four stages feeding to a slight extent 
on this foliage. 
No tray experiments were conducted. It is an unfavored plant. 
BUTTERNUT (Juglans cinerea L.). 
In a single instance stripping of this species has been recorded. Mr. Proctor 
observed this at North doer Mass. Other reports indicate very light 
feeding. 
In trays at Melrose Highlands and Worcester males were reared from 100 
second-stage larve. The caterpillars fed very sparingly and grew slowly. This 
is an unfavored food plant. 
HARDY CATALPA (Catalpa speciosa Warder). 
No observations were made on this species in the field. 
In the Melrose Highland laboratory the larve started in the first stage all 
died before molting. Each succeeding stage was tried, and a few lived long 
enough to molt once before dying. No adults were obtained. A very unfavored 
species. 
Rep CEDAR (Juniperus virginiana I.). 
This tree is seldom eaten to any appreciable extent by gipsy-moth larve, 
and only in the worst infestations do they show the least feeding on the new 
grow th. It is a common occurrence at the end of the larval season to find 
trees heavily infested, due to the larve having sought shelter from the hot 
July sun. 
Trays were started with this cedar at the Melrose Highlands laboratory, 
using each succeeding stage of the larve from the first to the fifth, inclusive. 
No moths were produced as a result of feeding on this plant. 
SOUTHERN WHITE CEDAR (Chomecyparis thyoides [L.] B.S.P.). 
Mr. Schaffner reports considerable feeding on these trees each year, and in 
1913 it amounted to 75 per cent defoliation. 
Tray records indicate that it is an unfavored species, although one male moth 
was obtained from 100 fourth-stage larvee. It is probable that solid stands of 
this species will not be injured. 
WINTERGREEN (Gaultheria procumbens L.). 
Mr. Shinkwin notes feeding on the leaves of this plant by gipsy-moth larve, 
and in rare instances there was considerable eating of the fruit. 
No tray experiments have been carried on with this species. It is unfavored 
food. 
CHOKE CHERRY (Padus nana (Du Roi) Roemer). 
This species is found as an undershrub in many wood lots. Very little feeding 
has been noted by any of the observers, and that was done almost wholly by the 
first three stages, the small larve making pinholes in the leaves. 
