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DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECTS AND INSECTICIDES. 



per surface, but several entomoloofists record the lower surface as 

 being j)referrecl. Later the larva^, Avhich until noAv have fed in a 



Fig. 12. — Th(> }j;rapo-l(>!if skcldotii/cT (irarriKaiKi (iiiirric(niii) : Voiihl;' lai'va^ foodiiis on 



leal". (Original.) 



roAv side by side, separate into sinale individuals or into small groui)s 

 and eat the whole tissue of the leaf except the larger veins. 



DESCRIPTION. 

 EGO. 



The egg (fig. 13) is small, shining, dilute lemon -yellow in color, 

 cylindrical-oval or capsule shaped, with an irregular hexagonal sculp- 

 turing. From a numb(>r of eggs measured the maxinnun length is 

 0.000 mm. and the nuninuim 0.533 nmi. ; the maximum width is 0.383 



