. The American entomologist. Entomology. 208 THE AMERICAN EKTOMOLOGIST. ' Xeiit-Catei'j>illar_-i StepTien Blamhard, Oregon, '"Sfo.—The '^worffls'^fnfestiii^ -vour tr°es wliicli "cover the hmbs%\ith a web," aie the comiuoii Tent Cater- [Fig Ho ]. Colors—Blue, ilack, white and rufons, pillar (Clisiocampa americuna, Ilarr.) For the benefit of the rest of our suljscribcrs we give the above illus- tration of this caterpillar, a representing it from a side view, 5 from a back view, e showing the eggs from Avliicli it hatches, and d, the cocoon which it spins. The moth which produce
. The American entomologist. Entomology. 208 THE AMERICAN EKTOMOLOGIST. ' Xeiit-Catei'j>illar_-i StepTien Blamhard, Oregon, '"Sfo.—The '^worffls'^fnfestiii^ -vour tr°es wliicli "cover the hmbs%\ith a web," aie the comiuoii Tent Cater- [Fig Ho ]. Colors—Blue, ilack, white and rufons, pillar (Clisiocampa americuna, Ilarr.) For the benefit of the rest of our suljscribcrs we give the above illus- tration of this caterpillar, a representing it from a side view, 5 from a back view, e showing the eggs from Avliicli it hatches, and d, the cocoon which it spins. The moth which produces them is known by the name of the American Lackey moth, and is of a rusty-browu color, the fore wings crossed by two oblique, straight dirty white lines. This insect need never become trou- blesome, for its large web-nests are very conspicuous, and the worms may easily be destroyed while sheltering within them. Its eggs ("Fig. 145 c,) are also easily dis- cerned and destroyed during the winter. Hatirlc's i»ellets—Vhas. 11. (?., Central, Mo. — In our hist number (p. 1S7) we expressed the opinion that the pellet composed of the hard shelly parts of a species of grasshopper was certainly discharged from the stomach of some Bird of Prey, and prob- ably from that of some species of Owl. From what we have since heard from our ornithological friend, Dr. Velie, we think now that the pellet must have come from the stomach, not of an Owl, but of a Hawk. He writes as foUows: "The pellet you men- tion must, I think, be the one ejected by the Broad- winged Hawk (iJufeo permsylvanicus, Wilson). On dis- secting one of these Hawks, killed near Eock Island in the spring of 1865,1 found inside it the legs and wing- cases of a species of grasshopper probably the same as that which you refer to. It also contained a number of the wing-cases of the Indian Ghafnv {Cetonia inda). I know of no other Hawk which feeds so exclusively, or nearly so exclusi\'ely, upon insects as does th
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