Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . ng to a point. Cremaster conical, cleft at the end; surface longitudinally corrugated, eachfork or spine truncate, and bearing three long seta, which are curved at the end as iu fig. , 20 mm. (U. S. Nat. Mus.). Habits.—Harris found the larva on Podah/ria tiiu-toria August 3. Its iiosition when at restis like the gregarious caterpillars {Pyt/ara) of the apple tree, the head and tail being elevated. Hefound another caterpillar on LespnJcza capitaia. August 9 to 10 it formed a cocoon of leaves andsilk of thin loose texture; August 13, became
Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . ng to a point. Cremaster conical, cleft at the end; surface longitudinally corrugated, eachfork or spine truncate, and bearing three long seta, which are curved at the end as iu fig. , 20 mm. (U. S. Nat. Mus.). Habits.—Harris found the larva on Podah/ria tiiu-toria August 3. Its iiosition when at restis like the gregarious caterpillars {Pyt/ara) of the apple tree, the head and tail being elevated. Hefound another caterpillar on LespnJcza capitaia. August 9 to 10 it formed a cocoon of leaves andsilk of thin loose texture; August 13, became pupa, the moth appeiiring the following June. Dyar, writing-in New York, states: The duration of each stage was about four days, withthe exception of the last, which was six days. The eggs hatched August 17 and the larva ceasedfeeding September 0. They became pupa in a few days after constructing their cocoon, andpassed the winter in this stage. There are two broods of this insect in a season, those heredescribed being of the second Fig. 69.—Papa of Dasyloi^hia aiifjuina:? an. L, vestiges of jiual legs. MEMOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 177 The eggs of this latber rare moth were sent ine by Miss ^Fortoii, of Xewburg, N. Y., ha\ iiigibeen hiid about the 20th of July. The larva hatched at Brunswick, Me., July 25; the first moltoccurred July 28, the second xVugust (I, the third August 10 to 11, and the fourth August 20 to has found the larva as late as in October, the moths in March, April, and June. Food plant.—Usually the wild iudigo plant (Harris, ISridghani, at Providence); sometimesthe locust (Harris, Miss Morton); clover (Dyar); Lespedeza capitata (Harris); locust and Bnptisiatinctoria (Riley). (Icor/i-dphicnl dhfrihutio)).—Occurs in both the Appalachian and Austroriparian subproviuces,extending from southeru Maine aud from Massachusetts to Florida and Georgia, as well as Texas. Kittery, Me. (Thaxter); Boston, Mass. (Harris); Brookliue, Ma
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