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deeper brown bands and having a very conspicuous white spot 

 near the anal angle. 



This antique tussock-moth is attacked by many of the same 

 enemies as the white-marked tussock-moth, and it can be con- 

 trolled bv the same remedial measures. 



The Oriental Moth 

 Cmdocampa flavescens Walker 



This is an Asiatic insect which was apparently introduced into 

 Massachusetts on nursery stock from Japan some time before 

 1900, but its presence was not discovered until February, 1906. 

 One of the peculiar cocoons of this moth has also been found 

 in an Albany, New York greenhouse on imported Japanese 

 maples. It seems to prefer to feed on the foliage of Norway 

 maples, but pear, apple and cherry are often infested, and it 

 includes a dozen other shade and forest trees among its food- 

 plants. The yellowish-red, slug caterpillars are armed with 

 rows of spiny tubercles or horns, and are about f of an inch long. 

 They hibernate in curious tough, smooth, oval-shaped cocoons, 

 a little more than J an inch in length, fastened firmly to the 

 bark, mostly on the smaller branches in or near the axil of a 

 branch. The cocoons are strikingly colored, with whitish and 

 brown often so mingled as to suggest certain oriental designs. 

 There is a brown lid at one end which is pushed open by the 

 pupa late in June when the moth emerges. There is but one 

 brood annually, the cocoons being made in September or Octo- 

 ber. The pretty moths have a wing expanse of nearly IJ inches, 

 the head, thorax and inner half of the front wings above being 

 of a dull chrome yellow color, while the upper portion of the 

 outer half is hght chestnut brown with a yellowish tinge and the 

 lower half is tinged with pink. 



While the oriental moth belongs to a family, the Cochlidiidse, 



