THE LARCH LAPPET MOTH. 
897 
Date. 
Male. 
Female. 
Date. 
Male. 
Female. 
1 
2 
1 
1 

June 5 
3 
2 
3 
1 
3 
1 
2 
1 
1 
June 9 
3 
2 
June 20... 
1 
1 
2 
Total ... 
15 18 
1 
9. Apatela sp. 
Observed near Fabyan's, on the Cherry Mt. road, N. H., September 10. 
It had been ichneumonized. 
Larva.— Head large, wider than the thoracic segments ; with a black curvilinear 
stripe on each side, not meeting its mate on the vertex. Body tapering rapidly to 
the anal legs, which are smaller than the other abdominal legs and held out backward. 
Supra-anal plate moderately large, rounded, somewhat pointed at the apex. Body 
white, with a very broad bright yellow dorsal band over half as wide as the body, 
and inclosing on each segment a large transversely deep oblong pink spot ; the pro- 
thoracic segment stained on the front edge with pink. Length 4 mm . 
10. Noctuid caterpillar. 
This larva occurred on the hackmatack in Maine June 16 ; it was a 
young one, and died in confinement. 
• 
Larva. — Body moderately thick, (legs: 6 thoracic; lOabdominal), ofthe usual noctuid 
form, but with no peculiar markings. Head full, of the usual shape, nearly as wide 
as the body, yellowish green. Body of a delicate pale green, tinged with yellow. 
A dorsal firm white stripe and two subdorsal rather narrower white stripes. On top 
of each abdominal segment are four white warts arranged in an oblong (transversly) 
square. Below the subdorsal line is a broken white line, and below this an infra- 
stigmatal white line. All the feet concolorous with each other and the head. Length 
11. Amphidasys cognataria Guen. 
A large Geometrid occurred on the hackmatack at Brunswick August 
31. It began to pupate September 14. See also p. 405. 
Larva. — Very large, body cylindrical, thick. Head rather deeply cleft, allied to 
other cleft-head ones, but head not so deeply cleft, nor is the body cleft, and it is two 
to three times as large as the other species. Head pale brown, colored in front, dark be- 
hind on the vertex, suture of apex of clypeus blackish. Head large, as wide as the 
prothoracic segment, the latter turned up in front, the sides being angulated. Body 
smooth, finely granulated with whitish and gray. A pair of small not very conspicu- 
ous slender tubercles on the sides of the fifth abdominal segment. A little lighter 
than the rest of body, and concolorous with the two diverging rough elongated warts 
on the penultimate segment. The body itself light mud-brown, with a slight red- 
dish lilac tint, with two rows of small white subdorsal whitish spots, disappearing on 
thoracic and two last segments. Supra-anal plate large, long, acute, granulated' with 
white on the surface. The two anal legs rather broad, the spine large and sharp. 
Length 40 mm ; thickness 8 mm . 
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