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side of which it hides and feeds. The caterpillar is greenish- 
vellow, with a yellow head and a littledarker horny cervical- 
shield, with a black dot on each side. On each of the 
remaining segments are a number of pale, shining, raised 
dots, from every one of which arises a single hair. As soon 
as the worms are full grown, on the approach of winter, 
they line their shelters with silk and fall with the leaf to the 
ground; they do not change to a pupa, which is yellowish- 
brown, until early in the following spring. When the 
enclosed moth is ready to emerge the pupa wriggles its way 
through the partly decayed case and thus gives the moth a 
chance to escape. 
This insect is by no means a stranger in our orchards 
and nurseries and it has been known to become so numerous 
as to seriously injure the foliage of apple-trees. The burning 
of all leaves and other rubbish is in this case also an excel- 
lent remedy. 
THE STRAWBERRY LEAF-ROLLER. 
(Phoxopteris comptana Froel.). 
This is the Strawberry Leaf-roller par excellence, though 
other leaf-rollers also attack the leaves of this plant. This 
insect is sometimes very common, causing in some seasons 
considerable damage The moth appears early in July; it 
has reddish-brown fore-wings, spotted with black and 
white; the hind-wings are dusky, the head and thorax red- 
dish-brown. It measures with expanded wings nearly half 
an inch across. The eggs for a second brood are deposited 
during the latter part of July, and the resulting caterpillars 
are full grown towards the end of September, when they 
pupate. They hibernate in this condition, and produce 
moths the following spring. 
The caterpillars roll the leaves into cylindrical cases, 
secured by threads of silk; they feed inside these shelters and 
