. Injurious insects of the farm and garden. With a chapter on beneficial insects. Insects. OF THE FAEM AKD GAEDBN. 47 and constricted at their lower edge, and the hind wings having their inner two-thirds of this same semi-transpar- ent yellow. The under surfaces have a more decided pearly lustre. The thighs, the breast, and the abdomen below, are all of a beautiful silvery-white, and the other joints of the long legs are of the same tawny or golden- yellow as the semi-transparent parts of the wings. The abdomen of the female terminates in a small, flattened black brush, squarely trimmed, and t
. Injurious insects of the farm and garden. With a chapter on beneficial insects. Insects. OF THE FAEM AKD GAEDBN. 47 and constricted at their lower edge, and the hind wings having their inner two-thirds of this same semi-transpar- ent yellow. The under surfaces have a more decided pearly lustre. The thighs, the breast, and the abdomen below, are all of a beautiful silvery-white, and the other joints of the long legs are of the same tawny or golden- yellow as the semi-transparent parts of the wings. The abdomen of the female terminates in a small, flattened black brush, squarely trimmed, and the segment directly preceding this brush is of a rust-brown color above. The corresponding segment in the male is, on the contrary, whit- ish anteriorly, and of the same color as the rest of the body posteriorly; and he is, more- over, at once distinguished from Fig. 32.—moth op pioklb the female by the immense wokm. brush at his tail, which is generally much larger than re- presented in the above figure, and is composed of narrow, lengthened (ligulate) scales, which remind one of the petals of the common English Daisy, some of these scales being whitish, some orange, and others brown. This moth was described nearly a century ago by Cramer. The genus to which it belongs is characterized chiefly by the partly transparent wings, and by the immense scaly brush of the males. The antennas are long, fine, and thread-like, those of the male being very finely ciliated; the abdomen extends beyond the wings, and the legs are very long and slender. The species are for the most part exotic, and the larvje of all of them, so far as known, feed on cucarbitaceous plants. Bat our Pickle-worm is an indigenous species, and has, doubtless, existed in some part or other of the country, from time immemorial; and now that its habits are recorded, and its history made known, I should not be. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced f
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