l8 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Hairy caterpillar, ground color brownish, with broken white 

 stripes on each side when full grown; the young are in 

 winter nests, they are brownish with 2 reddish dots on 

 back. Brown-tail. Page 36. 



Hairy caterpillar, ground color dusky; with 2 rows of red 

 spots and 2 rows of blue spots along back and with dim 

 yellowish stripe between them. Gypsy. Page 41. 



Hairy caterpillars, when grown with long pencils of hairs 

 at each end ; when young only sparsely hairy. 



I. Body white, black spotted, hair gray or white, with 



spreading tufts of white hairs and decorated 



down the back with a row of 8 black tufts. 



(fig. 17). Hickory tiger. Page 42. 



II. Body black, body hair yellow ; more or less black at 



ends. Spotted tiger. Page 42. 



Hairy caterpillars with soft hairy lappets low on the sides ; 



a black band between joints 3 and 4 which shows when 



walking; warts on joint 3. Velleda lappet. Page 44. 



A long-legged yellowish brown beetle feeding on the foliage. 



(fig. 18). Rose chafer. Page 44. 



c. Caterpillars living in web nests or cases in spring or summer, or 



concealed in folded leaf or bud. 



Dusky yellowish, hairy caterpillar usually with broad dark 



stripe along middle of back; body hairs long and dark; 



in colonies, (fig. 19). Fall web worm. Page 47 



Hairy caterpillar, ground color bluish, white stripe along 



middle of the back; in colonies. 



Orchard tent-caterpillar. Page 48. 

 Small bud-feeding caterpillar, with head and top of next 



segment black, body brownish. Bud moth. Page 50. 



Small smooth olive greenish or brownish caterpillar, with 



yellow head, black dot on each side of segment behind the 



head; lives in folded leaf in fall. (fig. 22). 



Leaf sewer. Page 51. 

 Caterpillar living in small cigar-shaped case (or from fall 



to early spring a curved case) about V± inch long. (fig. 



23). Cigar case bearer. Page 52. 



d. Conspicuous winter stages. Egg masses, cocoons, etc. 



A small clump of dried leaves fimly tied together with silk, 

 fastened to the twig, concealing small dark living caterpil- 

 lars within, (fig. 38). Brown-tail moth nest. Page 36. 

 A large spindle-shaped cocoon upon the twigs with a single 

 large brown pupa within, (fig. 37). 



Cecropia cocoon. Page 25. 

 A flat, oval, tan-colored, felt-like mass attached to tree 

 trunks, old boards and all kinds of rubbish. 



Gypsy moth egg mass. Page 41. 



