628 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
length. A high stiff spike like black double tuft as long as the body is thick on the 
.id third abdominal segments, and a double spike on the eighth. Length 26 to 
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9. Apatela dactylina Quote, 
This species is said by Mr. Thaxter (Papilio, iii, p. 17) to feed on 
the alder and willow. 
10. Apatela sp. 
This Apatela, allied to A. oblinita, occurred on the alder September 4. 
This is in form closely similar to A. oblinita, but it has no transverse 
"crimson-red bands." and the lateral line is not "bright yellow.*' u 
described in A. oblinita by Kiley. The moth emerged May 31. 
Larva. — Head of moderate size, not so wide as the body, black chestnut brown on 
rtex. Body blackish brown but the setiferous tubercles and hairs reddish chest- 
nut brown: the tubercles large and bearing often as many as twenty five setie which 
are uneven in length, but not much over half as long as the body is thick, and under a 
lens seem tobespinulate. The raised lateral line is reddish chestnut, concolorous with 
the setiferous tubercles; thoracic legs dark brown ; under side of the body dark livid 
brown, including the abdominal legs. Length 26-*27 mm . 
11. Eupithecia T sp. 
This span-worm occurred on the alder at Brunswick, Me., late in the 
season. 
Larva. — Body slender, tapering towards the hinder end, somewhat flattened. Head 
small, scarcely as wide as the prothorax ; reddish-brownish-yellow, like the rest t)f 
the body, which is yellowish, mixed with reddish-brown, with six well marked 
lozenge-shaped brown patches along the back, the last one succeeded by a brown 
line ending on the supra-anal plate, the latter moderately large, with two fleshy 
cylindrical tubercles beneath. The surface of the body is granulated, with a few 
scattered stiff hairs along the sides and back; the lateral ridge prominent and irreg- 
ular. 
12. Antepione depontanata Grote. 
(Larva. Plate iv, fig. 9.) 
A fine large geometrid caterpillar, dark brown, with two silver V- 
shaped spots behind the middle of the body, was observed July 23, at 
Brunswick, Me. It molted about July 29 to 30, and began to pupate 
August 12 in a rolled up leaf of the alder, becoming a pupa August 15. 
The moth appeared May 18 of the year following. 
Larva before last molt. — Head small, flattened, scarcely as wide as the succeeding 
segment, the body gradually enlarging towards the eighth abdominal segment ; sec- 
ond thoracic segment with a large hump ou each side : four blackish small dorsal 
tubercles on each segment; towards the end of fifth abdominal segment a large 
double hump, forming a high transverse ridge : supra-anal plate large, rounded, with 
six large piliferous tubercles on the hinder edge; below two large piliferous tuber- 
the base of the anal legs; anal legs large and broad. Body dark brown, color 
<>t* a twig of the alder, with a distinct V-shaped silver spot, the base situated on the 
hump on the fifth segment; another similar V-shaped mark on the sixth segment; 
from its apex a row of silver-white dots extends to the hump on the fifth segment ; 
along the back of the three first segments are two parallel silver-white lines. Lat- 
eral ridge prominent, and swollen at each segment with a lateral wart. Length, 30 mm . 
Fully grown larva.— Length, 40 nim . Color and appearance the same as in the pre- 
vious molt, but the markings are rather more distinct. 
