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Apatela hamamelis, Guen. 
This larva varies in color from pale yellow to yellowisli-red, with 
a few short scattered whitish hairs on the sides; a row of con¬ 
nected, triangular, dark brown patches and spots of pale brown on 
the sides. Head fiattish in front and similar to the body in color. 
When at rest it remains curled around in the center of the leaf. 
It is about one inch in length. Found in August on Chestnut trees, 
making a cocoon of bits of wood and grains of earth about the last 
of August, the moth appearing the following June. 
Apatela oblinita, Guen. The Smeared Dagger. 
The larva of this species 
is black. In the middle of 
each segment is a crimson 
band extending from the 
stomata on one side to the 
same on the other; on each 
band are placed six reddish 
warts, from each of which 
proceeds a tuft of yellowish 
bristles, the dorsal two be- 
* ing farthest apart. On each 
side of the dorsum is a yel- 
| low line interrupted by the 
crimson bands; also inter¬ 
rupted at the incisures in 
such a manner as to make 
the black dorsum almost 
diamond shaped on each 
ioint. The stiematal line is 
yellow wart emitting a tuft of bristles. Between the yellow lines 
are pale yellow spots of different sizes. Stomata oblong-oval and 
pale. Thoracic legs block; pro-legs tipped with black. Head chest¬ 
nut-brown. Found in June, August and September on Smartweed, 
Apple, Grape and Willow. 
Apatela superans, Guen. 
The larva of this species is the “Green Chestnut-backed Cater¬ 
pillar,” and is about one inch in length. It has a thick body; is of 
a green color, with a broad chestnut-brown dorsal stripe and a 
yellow sub-dorsal line. In the middle of the stripe, on the top of 
the second, third and fourth segments, there are two little shining 
black tubercles (two on each), and on each of the others< excepting 
the last, where there are none, there are four, arranged in a trans¬ 
verse curved line; each tubercle emits one or more black hairs; on 
the lower sides there are a few long whitish hairs. 
This rare caterpiller is found on Plum leaves in June, feeding 
singly. 
