. Annual report of the Regents . ment station, the same year observeda serious attack by this insect in his state. Description. The adult females are among the largest of thosebelonging to the genus. Some received measured ^-^ inch in scale is light brown, mottled with dark brown, and very con-vex. The under surface is concave, and in the examples before me,there are two pairs of ventral, transverse, white lines composed ofshort cottony filaments, one on each side near the midale and the pair nearer one extremity, probably the anterior. Both are inter*rupted in the middle
. Annual report of the Regents . ment station, the same year observeda serious attack by this insect in his state. Description. The adult females are among the largest of thosebelonging to the genus. Some received measured ^-^ inch in scale is light brown, mottled with dark brown, and very con-vex. The under surface is concave, and in the examples before me,there are two pairs of ventral, transverse, white lines composed ofshort cottony filaments, one on each side near the midale and the pair nearer one extremity, probably the anterior. Both are inter*rupted in the middle. Tiie young at this time (October) range in colorfrom a light brown to almost black. The abdominal segments aresharply defined, the caudal extremity is notched, and from the tips of thelast segment there extends a pair of delicate filaments. The young havea general resemblance to liny trilobites. Life history. No signs of eggs were to be seen, though Prof Cookdescribes them as small, yellow and oval. On examming the adults, a 1. REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST, 1898 215 number of young were found underneath. Apparently the species isviviparous ia this latitude, as recorded of it farther south by Dr Florida all stages have been observed during the winter and it hiber-
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