Insects, etc.. Injurious to Nuts. 



295 



The fore wing;s 



2^ inches to 2f inches across the expanded wings 



are ashy grey, silvery grey at the base 



and inner edge ; there are two trans- 

 verse streaks of dark brown and reddish- 

 brown, one near the base and the 



other towards the apex of the wings, 



a pale spot towards the middle, and a 



large pale ochreous or buff spot at the 



tip of each wing ; the hind wings are 



plain yellowish - white ; the head is 



yellowish, densely scaled ; the thorax 



with dense yellow scales, bounded behind 



with two rusty-brown lines, somewhat 



raised up into a tuft ; the abdomen pale 



ochreous to buff; the female has simple, 



the male crenulated antennse. Miss 



Ormerod (3) states that the eggs are 



usually laid on the upper surface of the 



leaves. I have never seen them so placed, 



but on the under surface or on the shoots. 

 They are rounded and very convex 



above, flat beneath, the upper part is 



pearly white, with a median dark spot, 



the lower part bright green, the lattei' 



forming a distinct green basal band ; they 



are rather large objects, and are firmly 



glued to the leaf and darken somewhat 



before the larvte escape, which usually 



takes place between ten and fourteen days after they have been laid. 



They are laid in groups of from twenty to seventy. 



The larvte (Figs. 197 and 199) 

 are gregarious and reach 2 inches 

 when mature. The ground 

 colour is dark yellow, a broad 

 black line runs down the 

 dorsum, and on each side are 

 three black lines which are 

 interrupted by yellow or orange 

 transverse rings on the seg- 

 ments ; head dark brown ; and 



numerous fine hairs ai'e dotted over the whole body. The first moult 



takes place about ten days after the larvcP have hatched out. At 



\A. V. I). Jiintoul. 



FIG. 198.— BUFF-TIP MOTHS AT REST 

 AND OVA (A). 



[F. Edenden. 

 -LARVA OF BUFF- TIP 3I0TH. 



