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bage Plusia, and drenching with a cresylic wash will be 

 found even more effectual, as the worms drop to the ground 

 with the slightest jar." 



THE .MELON WORM. 



{Phacellura Ayalinatilis. Linn.) 



This insect hibernates as a pupa rolled up in the leaves 

 of some plant or tree. Says Willet: " The Melon Worms 

 are of a light, yellowish-green color, nearly translucent, have 

 a few scattered hairs, and when mature, are about an inch 

 and a quarter in length. They ' web up ' in the leaves of 

 the melon, or of any plant growing near, which has flexible 

 leaves, forming a slender brown chrysalis, three-quarters of 

 an inch in length. Hundreds of these pupae were found 



Fig. 32. 

 Melon Worm and Moth. 



rolled up in the leaves of the tomato and sweet potato. In 

 passing through one of the patches referred to, numbers of 

 small, beautiful moths rose from the grass and weeds. 

 Their wings when extended measured an inch across, and 

 were of an iridescent pearly whiteness, except a narrow 

 black border. Their legs and bodies presented the same 

 glistening whiteness, and the abdomen terminated in a 

 curious movable tuft of white appendage?, like feathers, of 



