INSECTS INFESTING THE APPLE TREE. 79 



antenna, enlarged ; d, one of her abdominal segments, 

 enlarged ; e, her ovipositor, enlarged. 



The eggs (Fig. 436) are deposited in irregular masses and 

 secreted ; they are elliptic-ovoid in form and can be readily 

 distinguished from the eggs of the other species by the delicate 

 shell being irregularly punctured. 



Male (Fig. Aba) — color, brownish-gray; the fore-wings are 

 crossed b}'' three jagged, dark colored lines, which are most 

 distinct Avhere they cross the larger veins, and at the front 

 edge of the wing, where they divide the wing into four parts of 

 nearly equal width ; near the outer edge the wings are crossed 

 by a pale, jagged band, which terminates at the apex, at which 

 place there is a dark dash. Expands one inch and three lines. 



Remedies. — As directed in Nos. 22, 10 or 89. (See note, 

 Remedy No. 10.) 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 



DeLong's Caterpillar. (Cal.) 



( Clisiocampa constricta. — Stretch.) 



Order. Lepidoptera : Family, Bombycid.e. 



[The measurements of insects in this woik aie yi\en in inches and lines. The above cut rep- 

 resents one inch divided into lines and fractions thereof.] 



[Living upon apple and plum trees ; a strij^ed, slightly 

 hairy, sixteen-legged caterpillar.] 



The common name, DeLong's Caterpillar, is given this spe- 

 cies, as previous to 1883 it was only found, in this State, at 

 the Novato orchard, of which Mr. DeLong is the proprietor. 

 In the early part of the month of May, 1881, the caterjaillars of 

 this moth infested the apple and plum trees in such numbers 

 as to threaten the destruction of the entire crop of twenty 

 thousand of the former and five hundred of the latter. The 

 caterpillar (similar to Fig. 55) is one inch and nine lines in 

 length, nearly three lines in diameter, and is full grown by the 

 twelfth day of May. The body is sparingly clothed with soft 

 and short hair, rather thicker and longer on the sides than 



