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CHAPTER XLin. 



The Many-dotted Caterpillar. 



( Brachytsenia malana. — Fitch. ) 



Synonym. — Nolophana malana. 



Order, Lepidoptera ; Family, Noctuid.^. 



[Eating the leaves of the apple, cherry, and peach tree ; a 

 naked, sixteen-legged caterpillar, of a green color, dotted with 

 white, and marked with fine whitif^h lines.] 



"These caterpillars live exposed upon the leaves of several 

 different kinds of trees. When fully grown they measure an 

 inch in length ; they then roll up a leaf, and inside of this roll 

 they spin a thin cocoon. Two broods are usually produced in 

 a year, the last brood passing the Winter in the pupa state. 

 The fore-wings of the moth expand about one inch, and are of 

 an ashen-gray color, crossed by three zigzag black lines, which 

 are connected in various 2)laccs by black dashes. 



" For the destruction of these worms it has been recom- 

 mended to place blankets beneath the trees and jar the worms 

 off, when they may then be easily destroyed. As the last 

 brood remains in the pupa state within the leaves, by raking 

 these into winrows in the Winter and then liurning them, the 

 greater number of these pests will be destroyed." — [Condensed 

 from Fitch. 



CHAPTER XLIV. 



The Turnus Butterfly. (Cal.) 



(Papilio tnrvii!^. — Linnanis.) 



Order, Lepidoptera ; Family, Papilionid.e. 



[Feeding upon the leaves of the apple and cherry tree; a 

 bluish-green, sixteen-legged worm, having an eye-like spot on 

 each side of the third segment.] 



This caterpillar spins a fine web upon the upper surface of 

 a leaf, drawing the edges of the leaf slightly upwards ; when 



