PINE CATERPILLARS. 
783 
Moth. — Body and wings white, tinged on the veins with ocherous, speckled and 
banded with rust red. Fore wings whitish at base ; beyond, a broad diffuse brown 
band as wide as the thorax ; beyond, an equally broad, white band, with scattered 
brown specks, and inclosing the large round discal spot. A broad, extradiscal band, 
separated by a white band or line of varying width from the brown margin of the 
wing. Hind wings white, less densely speckled and banded than the fore pair, with 
a large, round discal dot. Fringe smoky-brown, with narrow, white checks. Hind 
wings white, usually less densely speckled and banded than the anterior pair, some- 
times with three irregular brown bands, two beyond the large round discal dot ; a 
marginal brown line, which is sometimes wanting. Abdomen and legs whitish. 
Length of body. .36 to .40 inch ; expanse of forewings, .95 to 1.15 inches. 
109. Zerene catenaria (Drury). 
(Larva, Plate xxxn ; figs. 3, 3a, 3b, 3c.) 
What was without much doubt a belated caterpillar of this species 
was fouud on the white pine October 5, but the body was not so 
clear a yellow, and the two black spots on the side of each segment 
were not well defined. A chrysalis was also beaten out of a pitch pine 
August 31 ; another out of a hackmatack August 30. The moths from 
these chrysalids appeared September 15 aud 16. From these facts I 
think this caterpillar occasionally at least feeds upon different conifer- 
ous trees. Its food plants, however, are the blackberry, woodwax, and 
wild indigo, though in Maine I have found it most abundant on Carex 
pennsylvanica. 
Larva. — Head as wide as the prothorax, full, rounded, distinctly bilobed, ash-brown, 
finely dotted with dark, and with six to seven large black dots on each side. 
Body a little thicker at first abdominal feet than elsewhere ; the body slightly 
widening towards this point ; it is cylindrical, the segments wrinkled above. 
Fig. 267.— Zerene catenaria.— c, male; d, female; a, larva; b, pupa— all natural size. From-Kiley, 
The body is above and as a ground color a light yellowish ocher-brown, with 
yellow-ocher patches here and there ; with broken, fine lines, one pair on each 
side dilating on the back of each segment into a minute black dot, one behind the 
