Insects injurious to fruits . s a smaller one of a dark-purplish shade, whileabout the middle of the wing there is a large, round, bluespot with a whitish centre and enclosed in a broad ring ofbrownish black. The antennae of the male are beautifullyfeathered, and the wings measure, when expanded, about twoand a half inches across. The female (Fig. 216) measuresfrom three to three and a half inches. The antennae are butvery slightly feathered; the fore wings are purplish brownmingled with gray, the wavy lines crossing the wings beingalso gray. There is a brown spot about the middle, margined 14
Insects injurious to fruits . s a smaller one of a dark-purplish shade, whileabout the middle of the wing there is a large, round, bluespot with a whitish centre and enclosed in a broad ring ofbrownish black. The antennae of the male are beautifullyfeathered, and the wings measure, when expanded, about twoand a half inches across. The female (Fig. 216) measuresfrom three to three and a half inches. The antennae are butvery slightly feathered; the fore wings are purplish brownmingled with gray, the wavy lines crossing the wings beingalso gray. There is a brown spot about the middle, margined 14 210 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE CHERRY. by an irregular gray line, and towards the base the wings aredensely clothed with a wool-like covering. The hind wingsare very .similar to those of the male; the thorax and legs arepurplish brown, the abdomen ochre-yellow, with a purplish-rod edging on each ring. Shortly after pairing, the female deposits her eggs in clus-ters, sometimes as many as twenty or thirty in one group. Fig. They are top-shapod, com]);l on both sides, and flattenedabove, about one-sixteenth of an inch long, and one-twentiethof an inch in the longest diameter, creamy white in color,with a yellowish spot above, which gradually becomes darkeras it approaches maturity, until it is black, when theyellow larva within begins to show through the translucentsides. The young larvae are darker in color than the more maturedspecimens; they keep together in little swarms, and whenmoving from one place to another follow each other in regularproccssionary order, a single caterpillar taking the lcad, sometimes by one or two in single Hie, then by two,three, four, or more, in regular ranks. When about halfgrown, they this habit, and, separating, each one shiftsfor itself. The larva attains maturity during , whenit measures two and a half inches or more in len<rth and is ATTACKING THE LEAVES. 211 of a corresponding thickness. (S
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