4H 
The Moths and Butterflies 
its pinkish-red hind wings with black branching border and yellowish-red 
fore wings crossed by six bending white bands containing small black spots. 
Attractive and familiar moths are the various species of Halesidota, whose 
larvae feed on the leaves of hickory, oak, and several kinds of orchard trees. 
These caterpillars (Fig. 593) are covered with short spreading tufts of hairs 
white and black or yellow, and bear, too, a single pair of long hair pencils 
usually black or orange. They are often called tussock-caterpillars and 
are not unlike the true tussock-moth larvae (see p. 404). The moths 
(Fig. 594) have long narrow fore 
wings, and hind wings only about 
half as long; in H. tessellata the 
hind wings are almost transparent 
yellowish (while the fore wings have 
faint darker short transverse lines 
or blotches); H. maculata (Fig. 595) 
has yellowish fore wings thickly 
Fig. 594. Fig. 595. 
Fig. 594 .—Halesidota caryce, above, and H. tesselata, below. (After Lugger; natural size.) 
Fig. 595 .—Halesidota maculata. (After Lugger; natural size.) 
sprinkled with brown and blotched with creamy-white spots, the pale hind 
wings being unmarked; H. lobecula has the wings nearly transparent, the fore 
wings dusted with dark scales, and a regular check pattern on the front and 
hind margins, the hind wings unmarked, and the abdomen of a beautiful 
rose color; H. argentata has the fore wings blackish brown with distinct 
white spots all over the surface, white hind wings bearing a single irregular 
brown spot near the apex. The Callimorphas (Fig. 596) are pretty, slender¬ 
bodied Arctians with snow-white, creamy, or soft warm yellow-brown wings, 
banded with dark brown or blackish; they belong to the genus Haploa, 
whose larvae are blackish studded with blue spots, and covered with short 
stiff hairs. All the species of Haploa are found in the Atlantic states. H. 
clymene (PL VII, F'g. 5) has the wings brownish yellow, paler on the fore wings, 
which are incompletely bordered with blackish brown, a curious blunt arm 
of this color projecting in from the hinder margin; the hind wings have a 
subcircular dark spot; H. lecontei has white hind wings, and brown fore 
