Insects Injurious to the Apple. 



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records it feeding ou the elm and lime (1). The moth is pale leaden 

 grey, with three thin darker, wavy, transverse lines, and a broad dark 

 area between the second and third thin lines ; the hind wings are 



unicolorons, but the veins show up darkly ; the hairy thorax is the 

 same colour as the fore wings, and the broad hairy body is paler than 

 the thorax. In colour, however, there is some variation, for it is not 



FIG. 62. 

 APPLE AND LEAF EATEN BY CATERPILLAR OF THE DRAB MOTH (Tn-nioeatirpa hicerra). 



infrequent to find dull reddish-brown specimens. The wing expa,nse 

 varies from Ij to 1^ inch. 



Like most of this group, it occurs freely at sallow blossom in the 



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