Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . round,brown spots on the fore larva (Fig. 234) ishumped, giving it a zig-zag-outline, and is brown with thethird to the sixth abdominalrings much paler. It has the unusual power of boring verysmooth, cylindrical holes in solid pine wood. We have re-ceived specimens of its tunnels from Mrs. .1. Brigham. Wehave found the larvre just moulting on the leaves of the lilac,September 12th. In Acroi/t/cta the head becomes large and broad, the fo
Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . round,brown spots on the fore larva (Fig. 234) ishumped, giving it a zig-zag-outline, and is brown with thethird to the sixth abdominalrings much paler. It has the unusual power of boring verysmooth, cylindrical holes in solid pine wood. We have re-ceived specimens of its tunnels from Mrs. .1. Brigham. Wehave found the larvre just moulting on the leaves of the lilac,September 12th. In Acroi/t/cta the head becomes large and broad, the forewings are broad and short, with dark streaks and a dark mark. like the Greek letter Psi on theinner margin. The larvie varyin being humped or cylindrical,downy, slightly hairy, or veryhairy, and feed exposed on shrubs. The pupa lies in a co-coon made in moss or in crevices of bark. A. ohlinita Smith(Fig. 235, larva) is whitish gray, with darker streaks on thefore wings. Apatela Americani Harris is a large, pale gray moth, withoutblack streaks, whose woolly, yellowish caterpillar, with long,slender pencils of black hairs, feeds on the Fi--- -:!4
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