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half-dozon or more will bo found in a single melon. Until half 

 grown the larvae are marked with transverse rows of black 

 spots. The full-grown larva is about three-quarters inch long. 



FIG. 287. The pickle worm (Diaphania nitidalis Cramer): larva, pupa, and 

 adult all enlarged. (Photos by Quaintance.) 



greenish or yellowish-green, with head and prothoracic shield 

 brown. The larva reaches maturity in about two weeks, when 

 a thin silken cocoon is made in the fold of a leaf in which the 



