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foliage of the nut, feeding also on the lime, elm, &c. 

 It is about an inch and three-quarters long when full 

 grown, yellow, with a black head and black lines, com- 

 posed of short marks, running from head to tail. There 

 is a transverse orange band on each segment, and there 

 are scattered silky hairs over the whole larva. The 

 brown pupa is to be found at the foot of the food tree, 

 either just below the ground or amongst the fallen 

 leaves. The fore wings of the moth have a span of over 

 two inches, and are purplish-grey, with ruSty-coloured 

 and black markings, the tip with a pale ochreous or 

 buff patch ; the hind wings are yellowish-white. The 

 best ways of destroying the larva are to shake it down 

 and hand-pick it. 



The Lackey Moth {Qasteropacha Tieustria). The 

 brightly-coloured larvae of this species are injurious to 

 the foliage of the apple and also other fruit trees. 

 They are about an inch and a half long when full fed, 

 bluish-grey, with two black eyelike spots on the head, , 

 two black spots with a scarlet space between them on 

 the next segment, and three scarlet or orange stripes 

 along each side of the body, the two lowest being 

 divided by a blue stripe. It is hairy, the hairs being dark 

 brown above, and golden brown towards the legs. When, 

 about May, they first come out of the eggs, which are 

 fixed in bands round the twigs of the food tree, and 

 pass through the winter, the larvee are small, black, 

 and hairy, and spin large web nests on the trees, in 

 which they live together, going out from them to feed. 



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