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ish green, a narrow, slightly wavy subdorsal yellow line, free at the 
ends; depressed spaces (i) to (6) yellow, (i) green centered, (4) bi¬ 
sected by green, (6) above the lateral ridge, nearly divided by the in¬ 
cisure; traces of a white sub ventral line and a broken yellow one on the 
lateral ridge. Length 5 to 7.7 mm. 
Stage VII. _(Plate I, Fig. 6.) Smooth, the setae absent; shape as 
described. Depressed spaces moderately developed, without sharp 
edges. Skin granules irregular, confused. Color yellowish green, dor¬ 
sal space and upper half of lateral space pigmented, below more trans¬ 
lucent. Subdorsal line yellow, narrow, waved by slightly darker green 
segmental dots above; lateral line broken, faint, all joining on joint 13, 
the subdorsals also on joint 3 anteriorly. Subventral edge white. De¬ 
pressed spaces (1) to (6) pale yellow, (1) and (4) plainly green cen¬ 
tered. Length 7 to 13 mm. 
Food-plants observed .—Wild cherry, white birch, bayberry, dog¬ 
wood, chestnut, sugar plum, oak, linden, maple, beech, hop hornbeam, 
hickory and huckleberry. 
Adoneta spinuloides Herrich-Schceffer. 
1854— Lima codes spinuloides Herrich-Schaeffer, Ausser. Schmett. figs. 187, 188. 
i860— Adoneta voluta Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. XII, 158. 
1864— Cyclopteryx leucosig?na Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Ill, 345. 
1865— Limacodes ferrigera Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. pt. XXXII, 486. 
1882— Adoneta spinuloides and leucosigma Grote, Check List, 17. 
1894— Adoneta spinuloides and leucosigma Neumoegen & Dyar, Journ. N. \. Ent. 
Soc. II, 71. 
Larva. 
i860—Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. XII, 158. 
1882— Ballard, Papilio, II, 83. 
1883— Edwards & Elliot, Papilio, III, 129. 
1892— Beutenmiiller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. His. IV, 68. 
1893— Packard, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. XXXI, 92. 
1894— Dyar, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. VIII, 213. 
Special Structural Characters. 
Dorsal space moderately broad, narrowing to the ends, lateral and 
subventral spaces both moderate, subequal, the latter scarcely retracted. 
Body elongate, narrow, rising rather rapidly to joint 5, thence sloping 
to joint 13. Ridges all slight, subdorsal indicated by change in direc¬ 
tion between back and' sides, lateral very slight, the row of horns form¬ 
ing most of it. Horns short and small, rounded, the subdorsals on 
joint 3 to 5 and 11 the largest, those on 8 and 13 next, the rest all 
