. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 129 I'lOr. Eggs—White—one twenty-fifth of an inch long, tapering toward the base ; margin at the top rimmed, centre with a depressed spot; deposited around the twigs like the eggs of the above species and distinguished from them b}" the cluster being square at the ends and uniform in diameter ; clusters contain three or four hundred eggs. (Fig, 17, e) shows an egg cluster, (Fig. 17, c and d) eggs, both magnified. The eggs are stuck toget
. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 129 I'lOr. Eggs—White—one twenty-fifth of an inch long, tapering toward the base ; margin at the top rimmed, centre with a depressed spot; deposited around the twigs like the eggs of the above species and distinguished from them b}" the cluster being square at the ends and uniform in diameter ; clusters contain three or four hundred eggs. (Fig, 17, e) shows an egg cluster, (Fig. 17, c and d) eggs, both magnified. The eggs are stuck together and to the twig by a brown varnish. L'trva—Pale blue tinged with greenish low down on the sides and everywhere sprinkled over with black points and dots. Along the middle of the back is a row of white spots and on each side of these an orange yellow or tawny reddish stripe, and a pale cream yellow stripe lower down on each side. These stripes and spots are margined with black. Each segment has two elevated black points on the back from each of which arise four or more coarse black hairs. Back clothed with fox colored hairs, sides low down clothed with whitish hairs. Head,, dark bluish, freckled with black dots and clothed with black and fox colored hairs. Legs black, clothed with whitish hairs. FIG. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Maine. Board of Agriculture; Maine State Pomological Society. Annual report. Augusta
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