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INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE CHERRY. 



The female lays her eggs in small clusters of five or six or 

 more together ; they are of a creamy-white color, about one- 



FiG. 211. 



f 



sixteenth of an inch in diameter, with an ochreous-yellow 

 spot on the upper side. They hatch towards the end of July. 



Fig. 212. 



The newly-hatched larva is about one-third of an inch long, 

 pale green, with yellow bands and faint rows of black tuber- 



