198 



Tall Bearded Iris 



men photographed, which perhaps was not quite full 

 grown. 



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FIG. LI I. LARVA OF Macronoctua onusta* 



Fig. LIII, from a drawing in which the specimen 

 is magnified, shows more clearly the claw-like feet and 

 the effective jaws. 



FIG. LIII. LARVA OF Macronoctua onusta (magnified)f 



The larva having completed its larval development 

 leaves the rhizome and three or four inches away 

 buries itself in the ground, to pupate. Here it becomes 

 a shiny, bright brown pupa or chrysalis about one and 

 a half inches long and half an inch in diameter, from 

 which, September or October, the mature insect, the 

 moth, emerges to begin a new cycle. 



*Courtesy of Dr. W. E. Britton. 



tCourtesy of "Gardeners' Chronicle (of America)." 



