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I. Body white, black spotted, hair gray or white, with 

 spreading tufts of white hairs and decorated down 

 the back with a row of 8 black tufts, (fig. 17). 



Hickory tiger. Page 356. 



II. Body black, body hair yellow: more or less black at 



ends. Spotted tiger. Page 356. 



13. Hairy caterpillars with soft hairy lappets low on the sides; 



a black band between joints 3 and 4 which shows when 



walking; warts on joint 3. Velleda lappet. Page 358. 



14. A long-legged yellowish brown beetle feeding on the foliage. 



(fig. 18). Rose chafer. Page 358. 



c. Caterpillars living in web nests or cases in spring or summer, or 

 concealed in folded leaf or hud. 



1. Dusky yellowish, hairy caterpillar usually with broad dark 



stripe along middle of back ; body hairs long and dark ; 

 in colonies, (fig. 19). Pall web worm. Page 360. 



2. Hairy caterpillar, ground color bluish, white stripe along 



middle of the back; in colonies. 



Orchard tent-caterpillar. Page 361. 



3. Small bud-feeding caterpillar, with head and top of next 



segment black, body brownish. Bud Moth. Page 363. 



4. Small smooth olive greenish or brownish caterpillar, with 



yellow head, black dot on each side of segment behind the 

 head; lives in folded leaf in fall. (fig. 22). 



Leaf sewer. Page 364. 



5. Caterpillar living in small cigar-shaped case (or from fall 



to early spring a curved case) about % inch long. (fig. 

 23). Cigar case bearer. Page 365. 



d. Conspicuous winter stages. Egg masses, cocoons, etc. 



1. A small clump of dried leaves firmly tied together with silk 



fastened to the twig, concealing small dark living cater- 

 lars within, (fig. 38). Brown-tail moth nest. Page 352. 



2. A large spindle-shaped cocoon upon the twigs with a single 



large brown pupa within, (fig. 37). 



Cecropfa cocoon. Page 341. 



3. A flat, oval, tan-colored, felt-like mass attached to tree trunks, 



old boards and all kinds of rubbish. 



Gypsy moth egg mass. Page 355. 



4. A band of blackish eggs encircling a twig. 



I. Egg mass with rounded ends. (fig. 36). 



Orchard tent-caterpillar eggs. Page 361. 

 II. With square ends. 



Forest tent-caterpillar eggs. Page 350. 



5. Eggs adhering to a grayish cocoon; cocoon enclosing a 



brownish empty pupal skin. (fig. 39). 



Antique tussock. Page 349. 



6. A whitish frothy mass enclosing several layers of eggs adher- 



ing to a grayish cocoon, with empty pupal skin within. 



White marked tussock. Page 349. 



