CHESTNUT CATERPILLARS. 353 
22. The chestnut caterpillar. 
Devouring the inside of chestnuts, the larva of a moth which grows to more than 
half an inch in length, and is cylindrical and thick, of a dirty white color, with a 
tawny yellow head and sixteen feet. It eats the meat of the nut mostly at its tip 
and on its convex side, the cavity which it makes being filled with little brown and 
whitish grains ; and a small hole is perforated upon one side of the nut at its tip, out 
of which a portion of these grains is protruded. (Fitch). 
The following insects also prey upon the chestnut: 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
23. Janassa lignicolor Walker. Miss Emily L. Morton writes me that 
she has found the eggs of this Notodontian on a chestnut leaf, a 
group of nine, and that the larva feeds indifferently on oak or 
chestnut. See p. 157, and PI. Ill, fig. 5. 
24. Thecla liparops. (Sc udder.) 
25. Thecla calanus Hiibn. (Buetenmiiller). 
26. Halesidota caryce Harr. (Beutenmiiller, Eut. Amer., vi, 16.) 
Fig. 133. Probab^ Halesidota metadata Eiuerton del. 
27. Halesidota maculata Harris. Probably the species on the chestnut 
at Providence. 
28. Batana ministra (Drury). (Beutenmiiller, Can. Ent., xx, 17.) 
29. Batana contracta Walk. (Beutenmiiller) See p. 151. 
30. Kronwa minuta Reakirt. 
31. Parasa f rater na Grote. Miss Emily L. Morton has bred this Coch- 
lidian from the chestnut. 
32. Parasa Moris (H. Sch.) See p. 144. On the chestnut (Beakirt). 
33. Phobetron pithecium (A. and S.) (Beutenmiiller). 
34. Orgyia sp. 
35. Telea polyphemus Cramer. Half a dozen larvae, of different ages, 
occurred on the leaves, Providence, Sept. 18. 
36. Pyrophila pyramid o ides Grote. (Beutenmiiller). 
37. Prionoxystus robinicv (Peck). (Beutenmiiller). 
38. A Notodontian larva. 
39. Anisota stigma (Fabr.) (Beutenmiiller). 
40. Anisota senator ia Abbot and Smith. Lives on the chinquapin, ac- 
cording to Abbot and Smith. 
41. Pysche confederata Grote. (Beutenmiiller.) 
42. Apatela ovata Grote. See p. 169. I have found the larva at Provi- 
dence. 
43. Apatela americana Harris. (Beutenmiilier). 
44. Apatela hammamelis Guen. (Beutenmiiller). 
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