. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . is one of the most destructive enemies to the applecrop. The eggs are laid in the newly-formed fruit,witliin which the larva feeds, and all that are tliusattacked fall prematurely to the ground. Fig. 1C5. Carpocapsa pomonella. represents, a, the larva of Carpocapsa p&
. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . is one of the most destructive enemies to the applecrop. The eggs are laid in the newly-formed fruit,witliin which the larva feeds, and all that are tliusattacked fall prematurely to the ground. Fig. 1C5. Carpocapsa pomonella. represents, a, the larva of Carpocapsa p>omonella; b,the pupa; c, the perfect insect; (/, the section of anapple, showing the track by whicli the larva escapeswhen full fed, previous to burying itself in the groundto undergo its subsequent changes. The plum, apricot,and other fruit trees, sufler from the attacks (jf speciesbelonging to this family. Family—GEOMETRID^. This family is equally extensive with the Noduidce,but in this country probably not quite so caterpillars are called loopers, or geometricians^whence the family name. They are rather slender-bodied, but their wings are ample. Their larvse haveonly ten legs. Their mode of progression is verypeculiar; having no legs in the middle of the body,they attach themselves firmly witli their fore legs, andthen bring up their hind legs close to them, thuscurving or looping the body in the form of the Greekletter n. The caterpillars feed on the leaves of variousplants, and, when disturbed, drop
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