. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. natural size at a, its colors being black, orange, and blue, and when full grown it attaches itself to the under side of a leaf and changes to a chrysalis, which is shown at b. The Spotted Lady-bird, Megilla maculata (De ^^g. 129. Geer) (see Fig. 129), is of a pinkish color, some- times pale red. It has large black blotches, twelve in all, on its wing-cases; two on one wing-cover are opposite to and touch two on the other. Fig. 130 represents the Fifteen-spotted Lady-bird, Anatih IS-pundata (Oliv.),


. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. natural size at a, its colors being black, orange, and blue, and when full grown it attaches itself to the under side of a leaf and changes to a chrysalis, which is shown at b. The Spotted Lady-bird, Megilla maculata (De ^^g. 129. Geer) (see Fig. 129), is of a pinkish color, some- times pale red. It has large black blotches, twelve in all, on its wing-cases; two on one wing-cover are opposite to and touch two on the other. Fig. 130 represents the Fifteen-spotted Lady-bird, Anatih IS-pundata (Oliv.), the largest of them all. It is a very. 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 Saunders, William, 1836-1914. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co


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