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EXPLANATION OF COLORED PLATE. 



These colored drawings, made from life by Miss Edith 

 Reed, artist, and remarkably true to nature, will give an ex- 

 cellent idea of some of our more common caterpillars, though 

 by no means all. It is to be noted that two of the figures, 

 Nos. 4 and 5, are not really caterpillars. They turn into 

 four-winged flies, known as Saw Flies, and not into moths or 

 butterflies, but barring the difl^erence in the number of pro- 

 legs they resemble caterpillars superficially, and having the 

 same food habits are included here. All figures are life size 

 except Fig. i, which is half life size. 



I"ig. I. Cecropia larva; Attaciis cccropia, Linn. These 

 caterpillars feed on almost all fruit and shade trees and small 

 fruits. , Their number is never large, and for this reason, and 

 because they are so conspicuous, they can be removed by 

 hand-picking. They are preyed upon by parasites, some birds, 

 and other animals. Emerge from their silken cocoons (see 

 Fig. 109 on p. 172) in May or June as large moths, similar to 

 the one pictured on page 172. 



Fig. 2. Blixd-Eved Sphinx, Paonias c.vcaccatiis, S. and A. 

 Infests apple and other trees. Caterpillar enters the ground 

 to undergo transformation, and moth (see Fig. no. p. 173) 

 emerges in May, June -or July. This caterpillar, not uncom- 

 mon in this state, is figured as a type of the Sphinx Caterpil- 

 lar. Should they ever become sufficiently numerous to be 

 markedly injurious they could be controlled with arsenical 

 poisons. 



Fig. 3. Zebra Caterpieear, Maniesfra /^icfa, Harris. 

 This beautiful cut-worm, although really a cabbage insect, 

 has been known to eat the leaves of the apple. The caterpil- 

 lar forms a cell in the ground, turns into a pupa and the 

 brownish moth (Fig. in, p. 173) emerges in the spring. 



Fig. 4. Imported Currant Worm, Nciiiatiis ribesii. Ap- 

 peared in this country in 1858. Not a true caterpillar. 

 Feeds upon leaves of currant and gooseberry. When full 

 grown it spins a cocoon in the rubbish under the bushes or on 



