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I'lOr. 17. 



Eggs — White — one twenty-fifth of an inch long, tapering toward 

 the base ; margin at the top rimmed, centre with a depressed spot ; 

 deposited around the twigs like the eggs of the above species and 

 distinguished from them b}" the cluster being square at the ends and 

 uniform in diameter ; clusters contain three or four hundred eggs. 

 (Fig, 17, e) shows an egg cluster, (Fig. 17, c and d) eggs, both 

 magnified. The eggs are stuck together and to the twig by a brown 

 varnish. 



L'trva — Pale blue tinged with greenish low down on the sides 

 and everywhere sprinkled over with black points and dots. Along 

 the middle of the back is a row of white spots and on each side of 

 these an orange yellow or tawny reddish stripe, and a pale cream 

 yellow stripe lower down on each side. These stripes and spots are 

 margined with black. Each segment has two elevated black points 

 on the back from each of which arise four or more coarse black 

 hairs. Back clothed with fox colored hairs, sides low down clothed 

 with whitish hairs. Head,, dark bluish, freckled with black dots and 

 clothed with black and fox colored hairs. Legs black, clothed with 

 whitish hairs. 



FIG. 18. 



When full grown, the larva spins a cocoon closely resembling that 

 of the ordinary tent caterpillar. It usually spins the whitish yellow 

 cocoon in the shelter of a leaf, but if leaves cannot be had 



