. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Noctuidae occurs abundantly about the city of Laramie. It is represented upon Plate XXV, Fig. 8, by a female specimen. Genus PLEROMA Smith (i) Pleroma obliquata Smith, Plate XXV, Fig. il, ,5. The species of this genus are all found in the western half of our territory. Genus LITHOMOIA Hubner (i) Lithomoia germana Morrison, Plate XXV, Fig. 12, ? . This is not at all an uncommon species in the northern Atlantic States. Genus XYLINA Ochsenheimer An extensive genus found both in
. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Noctuidae occurs abundantly about the city of Laramie. It is represented upon Plate XXV, Fig. 8, by a female specimen. Genus PLEROMA Smith (i) Pleroma obliquata Smith, Plate XXV, Fig. il, ,5. The species of this genus are all found in the western half of our territory. Genus LITHOMOIA Hubner (i) Lithomoia germana Morrison, Plate XXV, Fig. 12, ? . This is not at all an uncommon species in the northern Atlantic States. Genus XYLINA Ochsenheimer An extensive genus found both in the New World and the Old. Thirty-five species are attributed to it as found in our fauna. Of this number ten are depicted in this book. (i) Xylina disposita Morrison, Plate XXV, Fig. 13, ? . (The Green-gray Pinion.) The moth is found in the northern Atlantic States. (2) Xylina petulca Grote, Plate XXV, Fig. 9, $ . (The Wanton Pinion.) Not a common species, having the same range as the preceding. (3) Xylina antennata Walker. (The Ashen Pinion.) Syn. cinerea Rik-y. The moth is a native of the Atlantic States. The larva feeds upon the apple, poplar, hickory, and other deciduous trees. It has the habit of boring into apples and peaches, and the galls which are found upon oaks. The caterpillar is green, marked with a cream-colored lat- eral stripe, and spots of the same color. It pupates beneath the soil in a loose, filmy cocoon of silk, to which the particles of earth are adherent. Pupation takes place at the end of June, or the 206. Fig. -Xylina antennata. a. Larva boring into peach, b. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932. Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday, Page & Co.
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