Fifth report of the United States Entomological Commission, being a revised and enlarged edition of Bulletin no7, on insects injurious to forest and shade trees . lateral wart. Length, 30™. Fully grown larva.—Length, 40™\ Color and appearance the same as in the pre-vious molt, but the markings are rather more distinct. ALDER CATERPILLARS. 629 Moth.—Forewings rather broad and short, ajiex acute, as is the angle in the middleof the outer edge of the wing; the corresponding angle in the hind wings wellmarked. Body and wings ocherous-yellow. Forewings with a broad dark basalbroken band, bent at a
Fifth report of the United States Entomological Commission, being a revised and enlarged edition of Bulletin no7, on insects injurious to forest and shade trees . lateral wart. Length, 30™. Fully grown larva.—Length, 40™\ Color and appearance the same as in the pre-vious molt, but the markings are rather more distinct. ALDER CATERPILLARS. 629 Moth.—Forewings rather broad and short, ajiex acute, as is the angle in the middleof the outer edge of the wing; the corresponding angle in the hind wings wellmarked. Body and wings ocherous-yellow. Forewings with a broad dark basalbroken band, bent at a right angle behind the subcostal vein; a similar outer orextra-discal band, interrupted on the first and second median interspaces, and bentat right angles on the last subcostal branch. A marginalband, strongly marked on the costa, and succeeded bya row of about five dark spots, the fifth beings ituatednear the internal angle. Hind wings covered by a sin-gle diffuse broad median line, curved or bent outward inthe middle of the wing. The wings beneath more heavilybanded than above, and more strigated than above. Ex-panse of wings, 32 ( inches.). Fig. 207.—Antepione deponta-nata, natural size. — Bridg-ham del. It differs from the specimen figured in mymonograph in having the inner and extra discallines and marginal spots well marked, while the borders of both pairsof wings are without the usual broad, dark shading. This larva began to • 13. Geometrid larva. Found on the alder at Brunswick, Me., July August 6. Larva.—Head rounded, slightly bilobed, not quite so wide as prothoracio segment,surface marbled with brown. Body rather thick, without humps, but with rathersharp prominent piliferous warts, with four dark warts arranged in a transverselyoblong square on top of each abdominal segment, those on the thoracic segmentsarranged in a transverse line. Anal legs rather short and broad ; supra-anal platerather small, subtriangular, at the end six pilifer
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