CATERPILLARS OF THE FIR. 
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pretty caterpillars in eudeavoring to brush off one which was crawling 
on the back of my neck ; the hairs were thus forced into the skin and 
ah 6 d 
Fig. 295. — The tussock moth; a, female; e. male 
female pupa; d, male pupa; 
b, freshly-hatched larva. Xat. size.— After Riley. 
caused, as the result, the skin to smart severely for forty-eight hours. 
The female was first seen flying at Brunswick, Maine, Aug. 29, 
9. Olygia versicolor Grote. 
This species occurred on the fir, Aug. 28-31, at Brunswich, Maine. 
Larva. — Head rather large, as wide as protliorax, blackish, not striped but marbled 
with black. Seen from above the body is of nearly uniform thickness. Along the 
the back a series of broad triangular black patches, lined on each side with silver, the 
silver streaks making a series of sets of oblique streaks. The hump at the end of the 
body is high, and lined with silver on each side. The ground color is a rich black- 
brown. Length, 13 mm . 
10. The white-lined caterpillar. 
Order Lepidoptera ; family Noctuid^e. 
Feeding on the leaves of the fir in August in Maine, a larva of the usual Nodtuid 
form. Head nearly as wide as the body, smooth ; body rather thick, smooth, pale 
pea-green. A dorsal somewhat broken snow-white line, and two wider subdorsal 
ones. A broken bright-red lateral line, edged below with white and yellowish. Ends 
of all the legs reddish. Length 22 mm . 
11. A NOCTUID LARVA. 
Order Lepidoptera ; family Noctuid^:. 
Feeding on the leaves in August in Maine, a cylindrical noctuid larva with ten 
pairs of abdominal legs. Head of moderate size, as wide as the prothorax ; body 
thicker just in front of the middle. Segments of the body rather convex ; prevailing 
color pale horn-brown, mottled with yellowish or reddish brown; with four black 
rounded button-like tubercles arranged in a trapezoid on the top of each segment. 
Length, 18 mm . 
12. The fir paraphia. 
Paraphia deplanaria Guen^e. 
We have three species of Paraphia, two of which feed in the larval 
state on coniferous trees, Mr. William Saunders having bred P. subato- 
maria from the pine, on which it feeds in early summer, the moth ap- 
