. Report of observations of injurious insects and common farm pests, during the year ... : with methods of prevention and remedy . referred to, p. 115, of his observations of the changes of the larva of thePuss Moth, he mentions that he has not details of the fourth moult, but that atthe fifth the horns are gone and their places marked by dark velvet spots! 118 _ POPLAR. [1899 than two and a quarter inches in length from head to base of thehorn-hke tail processes. The colours had developed well, and, withoutentering too tediously on details, might be said to show the customarycharacteristics.
. Report of observations of injurious insects and common farm pests, during the year ... : with methods of prevention and remedy . referred to, p. 115, of his observations of the changes of the larva of thePuss Moth, he mentions that he has not details of the fourth moult, but that atthe fifth the horns are gone and their places marked by dark velvet spots! 118 _ POPLAR. [1899 than two and a quarter inches in length from head to base of thehorn-hke tail processes. The colours had developed well, and, withoutentering too tediously on details, might be said to show the customarycharacteristics. The back was mostly of a purplish brown, darker atthe edges, and varied with minute white dots and longitudinal segment behind the head for the most part greenish in a transverseband in the fore part (excepting the pinky colour above the face, anddark patches at corners above the face), and the centre of the nextsegments palish with somewhtit greenish tint. The face itself specimen proved to be one of the varieties possessing a darkpatch on the side, placed just below the lengthened angle of the dark. Larva of Puss Moth before last moult; also full grown, showing side mark.* dorsal stripe, and known together with it as the stirrup and saddleflap. Mr. Hellins records six good variations in form of the flapand stirrup, and that on my specimen must have been one of the mostmarked mentioned, and there was also a dark spot on the side of thenext segment just above the sucker-foot. The abdomen was green,deepest in tint at the lowest part of the sides, with two long darkstripes running beneath from the fourth sucker-foot to the tail. The above details do not perhaps bear much on practical economicconsiderations, still they may be of service in drawing attention to theinfestation before it gains its full-grown voracious conditions, and evenas matter of curiosity the main points of the changes appeared worthrecord when I had the rare opportunity of observing them
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