. The American entomologist and botanist. Colors—Yellowibli and brown yellow, speckled and spotted with brown, butcharacterized chiefly by the conspicuous darkbrown spiracles and broad brown incisures ofthe three larger abdominal segments. The moth (Fig. 14) which in time bursts fromthis chrysalis, has the body and front wings of afleshy-gray, marked and shaded with olive- [Fig. U.]. Colors—Gray, oUvc-groen and rnst color. green as in tlie figure, while the hind wings areof a deep rust-color, with a small shade of graynear their inner angle. This insect is in northerly regions one-brooded,but
. The American entomologist and botanist. Colors—Yellowibli and brown yellow, speckled and spotted with brown, butcharacterized chiefly by the conspicuous darkbrown spiracles and broad brown incisures ofthe three larger abdominal segments. The moth (Fig. 14) which in time bursts fromthis chrysalis, has the body and front wings of afleshy-gray, marked and shaded with olive- [Fig. U.]. Colors—Gray, oUvc-groen and rnst color. green as in tlie figure, while the hind wings areof a deep rust-color, with a small shade of graynear their inner angle. This insect is in northerly regions one-brooded,but towards the south two-brooded, the firstworms appearing, in the latitude of St. Louis,during June and July, and giving out the mothsabout two weeks after they become ,or from the middle of July to the first of second brood of worms are full grown inSeptember and,passing the winter in the chrys-alis state, give out the moths the following one occasion we found at South Pass, 111., aworm but i grown and still feeding as lateas October 20th, a circumstance which wouldlead to the belief that at points where the win-ters are mild they may even hybernatc in thelarva state. This worm is a most voracious feeder, and asingle one will sometimes strip a small vine ofits leaves in a few nights. According to Harrisit does not even contine its attacks to the l
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