notched hind wings,” and the heavily pectinate antennae of the males. 
In Packard’s Monograph of this family it is stated that the cater¬ 
pillar of this moth is very destructive to the elm in New York and 
Philadelphia. I have not noticed them feeding on that tree, but 
have twice found them feeding on the apple, upon the leaves of which 
I have reared them to the perfect insect. In neither case were they 
numerous. 
The larva is grayish brown, about an inch and a half long, with 
head red and two darker brown transverse slightly elevated lines on 
the back, one a little before and the other a little past the middle, the 
under side of the feet green. When at rest it is stretched out full 
length with both ends attached. It pupates in June by loosely draw¬ 
ing together leaves of the tree upon which it feeds, in which it 
changes to a chrysalis in a loose web of silk, or it may attach its loose 
web to the side of any substance that will offer support. The moths 
issue in a little more than a month. 
Caberodes confusaria, Hub. 
This very common species expands an inch and a half, whitish 
ochreous, rather thickly specked with pale brown spots, and has quite 
a prominent brown line from near the apex of the fore w T ings to a lit¬ 
tle past the middle of the inner margin of the hind wings. The api¬ 
cal end of the line is usually obsolete, but when present it does not go 
to the apex, but the end bends to the costa at right angles. Inside 
this line there is a faint thread-like line on the fore wings half way 
to the body. The antennae pectinate. 
Eutrapela transversata, Drury. 
This is a little larger and darker than the preceding, but has the 
dark brown line running across the wings in the same manner. The 
wings are acutely angled in the middle of the outer margin, the hind 
wings extending a quarter of their length beyond the tip of the ab¬ 
domen. Wings and body fawn color, in fresh specimens rather dark, 
and sometimes frosted over and varying to ochreous, more or less 
striated with brown. Besides the prominent transverse brown line 
there is also a faint inner line generally present, on the f<»re wings, 
composed of two scallops meeting on the median vein. Outside the 
brown line there is a shaded band composed of diffused spots, parallel 
with the line in the hind wings, but in the fore wings running from 
the hind angle to the brown line which it meets a little in front of 
the middle of the wing. Antennae not pectinate, only slightly ciliate 
in the males. The writer has reared this on Pepper Grass (Lepidium 
Virginicum ) and Knot Grass (Polygonum aviculare). 
