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Insect Pests. 



are two pale, sometimes white, prominences on the ninth and twelfth 

 segments and traces of pale lines along the body. 



Later in the year the similarity to the twigs is very marked and 

 even earlier, when the foliage is eaten, as is to be seen in the photo- 

 graph shown here (Fig. 58). In 1907 I found the larvae at Wye on 

 apple trees as late as the 2nd of November, at which date they and 

 all preceding ones had entered the soil to pupate. 



Treatment. 

 AVJiere they occur in any numbers it is well to have tliem either 

 haml-picked or tlie trees sprayed with arsenate of lead. As a 

 constant feeder on apple and cherry we may expect tliat some day 

 it mav occur in undue numbers and call for definite treatment. 



THE CLOUDED DRAB MOTH. 



{Tamiocampa inccrta. Hufn.) 



The caterpillar of this moth has been reported by Mr. Getting to^ 

 have attacked his apples near Eoss. In his note he said: "It is 

 astonishing what holes the caterpillar can eat in the fruit." 



FIG. 59. — LARVA OF Tivniocainpa incerta ox appi 



\F. Edenden. 

 LEAF. 



Later, Mr. (letting wrote me that he had only found the two- 

 actual caterpillars sent me, but that he had come across a good few 

 suspiciously eaten apples. " The first I sent I found actually eating 

 the apple " (2). This insect has also been sent from Kent, with a note 

 that it was harmful to the foliage of young trees. 



The normal food plants of the caterpillars of the Clouded Drab 

 Moth {Tcvniocampa incerta) are sloe, willow and oak. Taschenbero- 



