Insects injurious to fruits . ATTACK INQ THE LEAVES. 86 No. 31.—The Blind-eyed excecatus (Sm. & Abb.). During September, and sometimes as late as the beginningof October, there may be found occasionally on the apple-tree,feeding on the leaves, a thick, cylindrical caterpillar, about twoand a half inches long, with a green triangular head, borderedwith white, an apple-green body, paler on the back, but deeperin color along the sides, with its skin roughened with numerouswhite-tipped granulations, having a stont horn on the hinderpart of its back, of a bluish-green color, with
Insects injurious to fruits . ATTACK INQ THE LEAVES. 86 No. 31.—The Blind-eyed excecatus (Sm. & Abb.). During September, and sometimes as late as the beginningof October, there may be found occasionally on the apple-tree,feeding on the leaves, a thick, cylindrical caterpillar, about twoand a half inches long, with a green triangular head, borderedwith white, an apple-green body, paler on the back, but deeperin color along the sides, with its skin roughened with numerouswhite-tipped granulations, having a stont horn on the hinderpart of its back, of a bluish-green color, with I^^Q- 83. seven oblique stripes oneach side, of a pale yel-low, the last one of abrighter yellow than theothers and extending- tothe base of the is the larva of theblind-eyed sphinx, represented in Fig. 83. When full grown, it leaves the tree and buries itself in. Fia. 84.
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