THE LEPIDOPTERA 



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The Brown-tail Moth (Euproctis chrysorrhcea L., Fig. 269). This is another 

 European pest which was accidentally introduced into this country near Boston, 



FIG. 269. Brown-tail Moth (Euproctis chrysorrhcea L.) : 2, adult male; 3, adult female 

 moth; 4, egg cluster on leaf, covered with hairs from body of parent; 5, caterpillars feeding. 

 About natural size. (From U. S. D. A. Bur. Ent. Bull. 87.) 



reaching there about 1892. Since that time it has spread as far as Nova Scotia 

 and New Brunswick, and also practically covers all of New England. 



The moths are white except for the abdomen which has a few brown hairs, 

 and the tip is covered by a tuft, large in the female, of golden brown hairs 



