AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



FIG 17. 



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Eggs — White — one twentj^-fifth of an inch long, tapering toward 

 the base ; margin at the top riramed-centre with a depressed spot ; 

 deposited around the twigs like the eggs of the above species and 

 distinguished from them by the cluster being square at the end and 

 uniform in diameter ; clusters contain three or four hundred eggs. 

 (Fig. 17, a) shows an egg cluster, (Fig. 17, c and d) eggs, both 

 magnified. The eggs are stuck together and to the twig by a brown 

 varnish. 



Larva — Pale blue tinged with only greenish low down on the sides 

 and everywhere sprinkled over with black points and dots. Along 

 the middle of the back is a row of white spots and on each side of 

 these an orange 3'ellow or tawny reddish stripe, and a pale cream 3'ellow 

 stripe lower down on each side. These stripes and spots are mar- 

 gined with black. Each segment has two elevated black points on 

 the back from each of which arise four or more coarse black hairs. 

 Back clothed with fox colored hairs, sides low down clothed with 

 whitish hairs. Head, dark bluish freckled with black dots and 

 clothed with black and fox colored hairs. Legs black, clothed with 

 whitish hairs. 



FIG. 18 



When full grown, the larva spins a cocoon closely resembling that 

 of the ordinary tent caterpillar. They usually spin the whitish yellow 

 cocoon in the shelter of a leaf, but if leaves cannot be had for shelter 



