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“The larva fed on sassafras grew faster and larger than those fed on ash, and molted and 
pupated earlier.” 
Thrs conspicnons hairy caterpillar, which evidently feeds exposed on the leaves, seems to be 
somewhat omnivorous in its tastes, and sometimes feeds on herbaceous plants, as the burdock. 
Hence, it apparently belongs to the same category of hairy penciled white and black spotted and 
tufted caterpillars, as those of Ilalesidota, those of the LiparidiC, and certain species of Noctuidie, 
as Plaiifcerura furcilla, eUu It is noteworthy as being in this resi^ect exceptional among 
Kotodontians. 
Mr, Beuteniniiller has bred this species; the eggs were laid June 24, the larva entered the 
ground August 2, pupated August 4, and the moth emerged August 27-29. 
Pifjya. — ? 
Food plants. — AYihl cherry, Pi'unus virffiniana ; found on burdock; eats willow well (Harris 
..Corr., 307); sassafras and ash (Soule); willow, alder, blackberry, bayberry, azalea, sassafras, 
viburnum, and hazel (Beutenmuller). Feeds on the ironwood, gall berry, sassafras, etc. (Abbot); 
Phaseolus helrohts (Abbot’s MS. drawings in library of Bost. Soc, Nat. Hist.). 
Geographical disirihution. — Cambridge and vicinity of Boston (Mus. Comp. Zook, Sanborn, 
Mus. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.); Audierst, Mass. (Mi\s. Fernald) ; New York (Grote) ; Georgia (Abbot); 
Florida (H. Edwards); ^lassachusetts, Wisconsin, Ohio, Texas, var. Jipridana, Florida (French); 
Chicago, 111. (Westcott); New dersey, Pennsylvania, July and August (Palm); Kanawha Valley, 
W. Va. (W. H. Edwards, Mus. Comp. ZooL). Larva, Bushburg, Mo., September 17 ; moth, Indiana, 
Ohio, ^Missouri, Alabama (U. S. Nat. IMus.), 
Apatelodes angelica Grote. 
(Pl.XLIX, fig. 1.) 
ParathyHs angelica Grote, Proc. Eut. Soc. Pliih, iii, ]». 322, Sept., 1864. 
Apatelodes liyaluiopuncta Pack., Proc. Eut, Soc. l^hil., iii, p. 254, Xov., 1864. 
Apatelodes angelica Grote, Proc. Eut. Soc. Phil., iv, p. 207, Feb., 18.55. PI. 4, fig. 1, 9, p. 184. 
Kirby, Syii. Cat, Lep. Het., ]». 852, 1892. 
Neum. nnii Dyar, Trans. Amer. Enfc. Soc., xxi, 1894; Journ. N. Y. Eut. Soc., ii, p. 113, 
Sept. 1894. 
Larva. 
(PI.XLIX, fig.l.) 
LintneVj Eut. Contr., iii, p. 130, 1874. (Detailed description). 
Moth (35,12 )- — The female differs from A, torrefacta in having both wings well toothed on 
the outer edge, tlie apex of the fore wings much more acute, the outer margin more obliiiue, and 
in having much smaller palpi. In coloration it is quite distinct, since it does not jiossess the 
prominent lines and spots of A. torrefacta. Both species have the snbajiieal square transpareut 
sjiot, but in A. torrefacta it is small and inconspicuous, while a second adjoining one is wanting. 
Body ami wings very nniformly pale cinereous. Head, legs, and thorax concolorous. On the 
inner third of the fore wings is a straight, rather broad, darker band, which increases in width 
toward the costa. Beyond the median broad pale gray band the wing is darker. The costal edge 
is fuscous, the median crest of the thorax is tipped with brown, and beyond the middle of the 
patagia is a narrow transverse line. Hind wings fuscous gray, with an indistinct submarginal 
line slightly waved and edged with gray. Up])er i)art of abdomen reddish. Fringe darker. 
Beneath, the fore wings are crossed by two bands, the inner fuscous, the outer dark gray. The 
margin of the wings dark gray, especially the fringe. The thin broad tuft on the liiiid tibim is 
edged with brown. On each side of the base of the abdomen is a broad oblong spot, edged broadly 
with white before and behind. 
Expanse of wings, 5 43 mm., 2 50 mm.; length of body, 5 20 mm., 2 22 mm. 
The species derives the name 1 gave it from a peculiar square transparent spot edged with 
brown, situated just below the apex of the fore wings, nearly opposite the middle point of the 
wing. The lower subcostal venule separates it from a much smaller adjoining one in the 
extradiscal space. 
