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Fig. 9 shows a life size cut of the brown-tail caterpillar. The 

 young larvae leave the winter nest about the first of May and 



Fig. 9. 



feed until the last of June. This season the first larva was seen 

 crawling on April 29th, and the first to pupate was on June 25th. 



On July 20th one of the field force, while tending burlaps 

 for the gipsy caterpillars, killed four hundred brown-tail moths. 



Fig. 10 shows a cut of the female moth. Her eggs are 



Fig. 10. 



usually laid in a leaf as shown in Fig. 11. These clusters gen- 

 erally contain about three hundred single eggs. They hatch in 



Fig. II. 



August into the tiny caterpillars that proceed to construct their 

 winter home. 



Do not expect to see brown-tail moths at any time except in 

 July, the last two weeks, possibly the first week in August, 

 depending upon the season. 



On July 22nd a female moth was seen depositing her eggs at 

 York. 



