158 LETTERS TO MR. WISE [CHAP. xvi. 



imported, could not you suggest to your " consigner " that 

 unless he sent you bulbs without maggots in them, you 

 purposed applying elsewhere ? 



May 12, 1898. 



Excepting one specimen your caterpillars are not yet 

 nearly full grown ! If you will turn to " Lappet moth " 



E.C./L. 



Male and female ; and caterpillar ; also apple twig with leaves 

 eaten away all from life. 



FIG. 34. LAPPET MOTH, GASTROPACHA QUERCIFOLIA, LINN. 



in my Annual Reports for 1893 and 1894, you will find 

 "the brutes" figured perhaps get a hint where they may 

 have come from. 



It was about this attack amongst others that I gave so 



