530 INSECT PESTS OF FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD 



ABBOT'S SPHINX.* This caterpillar is 2 inches long, varying 

 in color from dull yellow to reddish brown. Each segment is 

 marked by six or seven transverse black lines, and longitudinally 

 with dark-brown streaks. On the next to the last segment is a pol- 

 ished black tubercle, or eye-spot, ringed with yellow. The moth is 

 a dull chocolate-brown color, with a wing expanse of 2- inches. 

 The fore-wings are pale beyond the middle 

 and are streaked with darker brown as illus- 

 trated. The hind- wings are yellow with a 

 brown border. The terminal segments of 



FIG. 380. Abbott's sphinx (Sphecodina abbottii Swain) and its larva natural! 

 size. (After Lugger.) 



the abdomen bear tufts of scales on either side, making the 

 abdomen appear truncated instead of pointed, as in most sphinx 

 moths. 



The Grape-berry Moth f 



The larvae of the Grape-berry Moth are the most common 

 cause of wormy grapes. The first generation of larva? web together 

 the grape clusters before the blossoms open or soon after 

 the grapes are set, and feed upon the clusters. Later the larvae 

 bore into the green and ripening fruit, producing purplish spots 

 resembling the appearance of injury by the black rot. The 

 berries decay from the work of the larvae and from the entrance 



* Sphecodina abbottii Swain. 



\Polychrosis viteana Clem. Family Tortricidce. See Quaintance, I.e.; 

 Hartzell, I.e.; M. V. Slingerland, Bulletin 223, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta.; 

 and Gossard and Houser, Circular 63, Ohio Agr. Exp. Sta. 



