Insects affecting the orange . leaf, bark, qmoss and other scraps, supplemented not unfre-quently with the scales of Bark-lice. As an addi-tional jnotection, several small orange thorns areoften fastened to the outside of the case, with theirsharp tips projecting backwards and pupa case is dark mahogany-brown, and thesutures between the joints are opaque, black, form-ing on the female pupa three, and on the male pupafour, very distinct rings. The male is a small, dark-brown moth, measuring IG (-Ak- inch) across the fig. 67— . mi ^ 1-^1 T piovmt. (A^ftuiGlover.) exten


Insects affecting the orange . leaf, bark, qmoss and other scraps, supplemented not unfre-quently with the scales of Bark-lice. As an addi-tional jnotection, several small orange thorns areoften fastened to the outside of the case, with theirsharp tips projecting backwards and pupa case is dark mahogany-brown, and thesutures between the joints are opaque, black, form-ing on the female pupa three, and on the male pupafour, very distinct rings. The male is a small, dark-brown moth, measuring IG (-Ak- inch) across the fig. 67— . mi ^ 1-^1 T piovmt. (A^ftuiGlover.) extended wings. The lemale, as in the preceding Bag-worms, is wingless, and undergoes a development similar to that of Oiketicus. UNNAMED BAG-WORM. [Fig. 68.] A species of Bag-worm smaller than any of the preceding exists uponOrange, and is not uncommon. Its cases are long, slender, and cylin-drical, and covered with fragments of bark, straw, »S:c.; many of theseare linear, and have projecting ends. The female case (Fig. 68a) is.


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