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Close-banded Demas

Demas propinquilinea

Plate XIX — Close-banded Demas is Fig. 3
Plate XIX — Close-banded Demas is Fig. 3

The caterpillar feeds on various deciduous trees, making a case for itself by drawing two leaves together with strands of silk. It occurs in the Atlantic States.

(For the other two species of genus see Proceedings U. S. Nat. Museum, Vol. XXI, p.22.)