. The American entomologist and botanist. case does it form any cocoon. Sbortlj after thisit changes to a chrysalis (Fig. 5, No. 3), of theusual shape and shining mahogany brown remaining in the pupa state about four-teen days, it bursts the pupa shell and in theforepart of July appears as a moth (Fig. 6), ofa pale nankin yellow color, the wings shadedwith faint dusky leaden-colored spots arrangedso as not to present an) [Fig. C] definite pattern. Thesexes then couple asusual, and the femalelaj^s her eggs on thebranches and twigs oftlie bushes. Owing tothis peculiarity, the , , „ ,
. The American entomologist and botanist. case does it form any cocoon. Sbortlj after thisit changes to a chrysalis (Fig. 5, No. 3), of theusual shape and shining mahogany brown remaining in the pupa state about four-teen days, it bursts the pupa shell and in theforepart of July appears as a moth (Fig. 6), ofa pale nankin yellow color, the wings shadedwith faint dusky leaden-colored spots arrangedso as not to present an) [Fig. C] definite pattern. Thesexes then couple asusual, and the femalelaj^s her eggs on thebranches and twigs oftlie bushes. Owing tothis peculiarity, the , , „ , „ , ^ ^ ^ ? Colois—Pale jellow and faint species is frequently icad-coior. carried in the egg state upon transplanted bushesfrom one neighborhood to another; which ac-counts for its sudden appearance in parts whereit was before unknown. For there is but onebrood of this insect in one year, and the eggsmust consequently, like those of the Tent-wormof the Apple-tree, bo exposed, on the twigs andlimbs to which they are attached, to
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