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INSECTS INFESTING THE GRAPE. 



Fig. 177. — tirapevine Pluino : 

 c?, the moth — colors, pale yellow, 

 white, and brown ; a, the cater- 

 pillars in their nests — color, 

 greenish-yellow, with white hairs; 

 6, the pupa — color, green or 

 brown ; c, one of the horns on 

 the back of the pupa, enlarged ; 

 e, one of the leg-bearing segments 

 of the larva, enlarged. 



The perfect moth (Fig. 177(0 

 expands a little over nine lines, 

 is of a tawny yellow color, and 

 each fore-wing is marked with 

 about five white spots ;" these 

 wings are cleft or cut nearly to 

 the middle ; the hind wings are 

 cleft twice, the forward cleft 

 reaching nearly to the middle, and the second cleft reaches 

 nearly to the base of the wing : they are rusty brown at the 

 base, with the remaining part tawny yellow. 1 have found the 

 perfect insect ; also, a rolled leaf on vines. 



Remedy. — Use Xo. 24. Spray in the latter part of April, or 

 early in May, with No. 5 or 7. 



CHAPTER ex. 



The Grapevine, or Steel-blue Flea-beetle. (Cal.) 



(Haltica chalyhea. — Illiger.) 



Order, Coleoptera ; Family, Chrysomelid.*. 



[Feeding upon the buds or leaves of the grape and willow; 

 an elongate brownish six-legged larva, marked with black 

 dots and with a black head ; linally changing to a small blue- 

 black beetle, about two lines in length.] 



