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Male Moth, expanse of fore wings an inch and a half. Color, 

 rusty bnff sprinkled with brownish dots and with two transverse 

 brown wavy line9, the inner most distinct. Between the bands and 

 near the anterior edge is usually a brownish, dot. Hind wings 

 paler. Body color of fore wings The antennae are feathered. 

 Like most of the moths of the inch worms the wings are very deli- 

 cate. The male moth about natural size is shown in Fig. 7. The 

 moths of the Canker-worm would be on the wing at the same time 

 but they are smaller. 



LIFE HISTORY. 



The eggs hatch early in the spring and the young larvae feed 

 upon the foliage of the apple tree, basswood, elm, hickory, etc., 

 and are full grown about the middle of June, when they usually 

 let themselves down by a silken thread, enter the ground about 

 five or six inches, form a little oblong cell within which they change 

 to the chrysalis state. In October or November (sometimes not 

 until the following spring) when the moths appear. The wingless 

 females climb the trees or other objects where they meet the winged 

 males, pair and soon deposit the eggs in clusters, (usually upon the 

 branches of the tree they have infested,) completing the life history. 



REMEDIES. 



The life history of this species is so nearly like that of the Can- 

 ker-worm that the remedies suggested for that insect are applicable 

 to this. It has never done as much damage as the Canker-worm 

 but it is capable of doing much injury to the foliage of apple trees 

 and from^the specimens received we should judge that it is quite 

 abundant about Warren, Maine. 



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