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Orgyia definite Pack.
Tufted as a "leucosigma". The long pencils black
The posterior an sheathed with pale straw colored hair
Wedge shaped dorsal tufts on 4-7 but not straight yellow -
and, their tubules generally only the two middle ones,
sometimes all more or less ringed with black the rings
connected by a dorsal black band which runs post to
the port pencil. These rings often reduced to mere crescent
post the two middle tufts. Often tufts pale whitish
or straw color. Dorsal band on 8-11 generally distinct
distinctly with dull red blotches appears coney. The colored
epithelium (leucosigma) but often almost entirely suffused or
obliterated w. straw yellow. Body straw yellow to greenish
yellow with more or less distinct green s.d. & distinct green
s.d. & distinct green s.d. & distinct green s.d.
Lower portion
Right green to yellow green. Head 2 by straw color.
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