388 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
found on apple, cheriy, and plum trees, and on currant and 
barberry bushes in July and August. When young it is 
of a deep yellow color, ’i>^ith rows of minute black warts on 
its back. It comes to its full size by the first of September, 
Fig. 183. 
and then measures three inches or more in length, and Is 
thicker than a man’s thumb. It is then entirely of a fine, 
clear, light green color ; on the top of the second ring are 
two large globular coral-red warts, beset with about four¬ 
teen very short black bristles ; the two warts on the top 
of the third ring are like those on the second, but rather 
larger; on the top of the seven following rings there are 
two very long egg-shaped yellow warts, bristled at the end, 
and a sIno;le wart of larger size on the eleventh ring ; on 
each side of the body there are two longitudinal rows of • 
long light blue warts, bristled at the end, and an additional 
short row, below them, along the first five rings. This cat¬ 
erpillar does not bear confinement well ; but it may be seen 
spinning its cocoon, early in September, on the twigs of the 
trees or bushes on which it lives. The cocoon (Fig. 184, 
Fig. 184. 
Fig. 185, pupa) is fastened longitudinally to the side of a 
twig. It is, on an average, three inches long, and one inch 
