. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . Fig. 167.—Caterpillar of White-lined Sphinx—colors, blackand yellow. In the other form (Fig. 167) the body is black, usuallymarked on the back with a yellow line, and Avith a number ofyellow spots on each side of the body. When fully grown itmeasures from three to four inches in length ; it then creepsbeneath some leaves or other rubbish, sometimes even enter-ing the earth, and forms a smooth cell in which to undergoits transformation
. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . Fig. 167.—Caterpillar of White-lined Sphinx—colors, blackand yellow. In the other form (Fig. 167) the body is black, usuallymarked on the back with a yellow line, and Avith a number ofyellow spots on each side of the body. When fully grown itmeasures from three to four inches in length ; it then creepsbeneath some leaves or other rubbish, sometimes even enter-ing the earth, and forms a smooth cell in which to undergoits transformations. The fore-wings of the moth (Fig. 168) expand al)out threeinches, are of a dark olive-green color, with a whitish lineextending from the base to the tip of each wing; the hindwings are black, with a rose-colored band extending length-wise through the middle. This moth is quite common in thisState, and may frequently be seen in the evening twilightliovering over the flowers like a humming-bird. 186 TNSECTS INFESTING THE GRAPE. Fig. Fig. 168,—White-lined Sphinx—colors, olive-green, white,hlack and rose-colored. Remedies.—Nos. 14, 100 and 101. CHAPTER CIV. The Eight-spotted Forester. (Cal.) (Alypia octoviaculata.—Fabricius.) Order, Lepidoptera ; Family, [Feeding upon the leaves of the grapevine ; a bluish-whiteworm, dotted with black, and having on the middle of eachsegment a broad transverse orange band, on each side ofwhich are four black rings.] Fig. For-ester and Caterpillar; c, themoth—colors, blue-black andyellow ; a, the caterpillar—col-ors, bluish-white, black andorange ; h, one segment of itsbody, enlarged. This worm wlien fully grown(Fig. l()9r^) measures one inchand four lines in length; itpupates within a slight cocoon Fig. 196.
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