. Annual report. 1st-12th, 1867-1878. Packard.] RED-BANDED CRANBERRY TORTRIX, 523 brown linear band, the upper part of the S terminating on the top ofthe occiput, the line being most distinct on the side of the head. Theocelli are black. It is .27 of an inch in length. Mr. Trouvelot, who made the admirable drawings here engraved,,wrote me as follows regarding its habits : Like the larvse of the ITes-peridce, as in Endamus and Tityrus, this cranberry-worm sends off theexcrement to some distance when it defecates. When it had built animperfect cocoon, it was very careful to remove the pellets of
. Annual report. 1st-12th, 1867-1878. Packard.] RED-BANDED CRANBERRY TORTRIX, 523 brown linear band, the upper part of the S terminating on the top ofthe occiput, the line being most distinct on the side of the head. Theocelli are black. It is .27 of an inch in length. Mr. Trouvelot, who made the admirable drawings here engraved,,wrote me as follows regarding its habits : Like the larvse of the ITes-peridce, as in Endamus and Tityrus, this cranberry-worm sends off theexcrement to some distance when it defecates. When it had built animperfect cocoon, it was very careful to remove the pellets of excrementin it, by taking them with the mandibles and carrying them out. The pupa is brown, rather slenderer than usual, with the vertex ofthe head prolonged into a large tubercle, surmounted by a round knob,which is rough, while the tubercle below is smooth; there is an angularprojection on each side of the base of the tubercle, forming a shoulderto it. The wing-covers reach to the end of the third ahdoininal ring,while the antenna
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