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INSECTS INFESTING TEE OLIVE. 



light yellow spots, and the abdomen is brownish, spotted with 

 blaek on the sides. 



Fiff. 124. 



Fig. 125 



Fig. 124. — Olive Fly, cnhirged — colors, gray, blaek and yel- 

 low. 



Fig. 12-"). — Olive Worm and Pupa; at the left, the worm, nat- 

 ural size and enlarged — color, whitish; at the right, the pupa, 

 natural size and enlarged — color, brown. 



Tills \\y })unctures the skin of the olive and deposits therein 

 a single egg; the maggot, which hatches from this, burrows 

 into the berry until reaching the stone, which it leaves 

 untouclied. After attaining its full size, it forms a cell beneath 

 the skin, and in this cell it assumes the pupa form (Fig. 125, 

 right.') 



Remedy. — S]ii'ay with Xos. 4, •") or 7. 



