Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . s. The outer band isheaviest on the costa andinner angle, and faint in Fig. 252. the middle of the wing. The hind wings are pale, shiningwhitish, with no bands. It expands .90 of an inch. In Europe, Mr. Curtis states, the Aphomia colonella Linn.(Fig. 252) which also occurs with us, is a formidable foe of thehumble bee, feeding upon its honey. AVhen fully fed it spins atough web of a close woolly texture, in which the caterpillarturns to a chrysali
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . s. The outer band isheaviest on the costa andinner angle, and faint in Fig. 252. the middle of the wing. The hind wings are pale, shiningwhitish, with no bands. It expands .90 of an inch. In Europe, Mr. Curtis states, the Aphomia colonella Linn.(Fig. 252) which also occurs with us, is a formidable foe of thehumble bee, feeding upon its honey. AVhen fully fed it spins atough web of a close woolly texture, in which the caterpillarturns to a chrysalis (a). The female moth creeps into thenest in June to deposit her eggs, and the caterpillars live infamilies sometimes of five hundred, to the total destruction ofthe progeny of the poor humble bees. The moths are of a dirtywhite, the upper wings have a greenish and rosy tinge, with aline of ])lack dots round the margin, a whitish space near thebase, and two black lines near the costa in the male. The fe-male has two distinct, indented, transverse bars, and two blackspots on the disc. Hydrocampa and its allies are exceedingly interesting from. 330 LEPIDOPTERA. the aquatic habits of the larvae, which remind us of the Caddisworms. Catadysta is at once known by its slender body andnarrow wings, the hinder pair of which have a row of eye-likespots along the hind margin. The larva is elongate, with a palehead, and is aquatic, feeding beneath the leaves of the Duckweed, living in a cylindrical silken case covered with pupa has a long ventral projection, and is enclosed in thecase of the larva. (7. fulicalis Clemens has, on the outer mar-gin of the hind wings, a row of five black lunules connectedby intermediate metallic violet blue spots, and behind them arow of orange yellow dots. The larva of Paraponyx is provided with branchife and spira-cles ; the pupa residing in a cocoon among leaves under has large white spots on the outer edge of thefore wings. The
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