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applb. leaves. 
take on different colors and marks with every change of their 
skins, so that a description of the full grown worm will not apply 
to it when it is small. Quite a number of these worms are yet 
unknown to us in their perfect state. Of those mentioned below, 
the eight first are caterpillars, clothed more or less densely with 
hairs; the four next are large thick bodied worms, and the re¬ 
mainder are small and more slender. 
28. Apple-tree caterpillar, Clisiocampa Americana, Harris. (Lepidoptera 
Bombycidae.) r • 
In May, forming large cobweb-like nests in the forks of the 
limbs; black, hairy caterpillars with white lines, and along each 
side a row of blue spots; living together in societies; finally dis¬ 
persing and spinning oval white cocoons, placed in sheltered cor¬ 
ners. The moth appearing the first of July, dull brownish red, 
its fore wings crossed by two straight white bands running parallel 
with the hind margin. Width of the wings when spread, 1.20 
to 2.00. See Transactions of 1855, p. 413. 
Forest caterpillar, Clisiocampa sylvatica. See Oak insects. 
Fall web worm, Hyphantria textor. See Cherry insects. No. 88. 
Hickory tussock moth, Lophocampa Caryce. See Walnut insects. 
2t>. Yellow-necked apple-tree worm, Eumetopona Ministra, Drury. 
(Lepidoptera. Notodontidae.) 
Clustered closely together and wholly stripping the leaves from 
a particular limb, in August; when alarmed holding both ends 
of their bodies stiffly upward; dull yellow, cylindrical worms 
thinly clothed with long soft hairs, with light yellow stripes and 
black heads, when older becoming black with a yellow neck and 
light yellow stripes. The moth varying from buff yellow to 
auburn brown, its fore wings crossed by three to five narrow 
brown or blackish bands, the forward one curved and transverse, 
the other straight and parallel with the hind margin. Width 
2.00 to 2.40. See Transactions, 1855, p. 467. 
“'‘^R'can lappet moth, Gastropacha Americana, Harris. (Lepidop- 
bi July, August and September, appressed to and resembling a 
natural tumor or swelling of the bark; a flattened ash-gray worm 
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