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The adult (Fig. 8) resembles a Lachnostcrina, but is much 
smaller, only half an inch long or less, the thorax uniform blackish, 
the elytra each with a vaguely defined small dark spot near the 
center. It is decidedly hairy beneath, about as in Lachnostcrna. 
The inner claw of the anterior tarsi is cleft, and differs consider- 
ably in the two sexes. In the female it is not greatly flexed, and 
the divisions are nearly of the same size, the lower slightly shorter. 
In the male the claw is strongly flexed, and the upper division is 
slender and short, only about half as long as the lower division, 
which is large and broad. 
Fig. 8. Aiiomala binotata, adult female. 
Length about three-eighths iach. 
The Green Fruit-worms 
(Tcciiiocaiiipa and Xylitta) 
The green fruit-worms (Fig. 9, 10) are quite unlike the other 
common fruit pests in appearance and method of injury. They are 
smooth green caterpillars, an inch to an inch and a half long, very 
similar to common cutworms except in their color, which is a light 
green, with whitish or yellowish stripes, usually one on each side 
and one down the middle of the back. Their principal injury is 
done by boring or eating a large deep cavity in the young fruit, 
as is well shown in the illustrations. They do not spin any web 
nor let themselves down by a thread when disturbed, as tree cater- 
pillars so often do, but curl up and drop like a cutworm. They 
not only injure the fruit of the apple, peach, plum, pear, quince 
and other orchard trees, but also eat the leaves of these trees; and 
they often feed in numbers on the leaves of several common forest 
and shade trees, which at times are largely defoliated by them. A 
