(Apa, 
The spruce-bud worm attains its full size and stops feeding, 
ready to transform to a chrysalis, in Cumberland county, bythe — 
20th to 30th of June, and about the Rangeley lakes and inthe 
hite Mountain region a few days or nearly a week later. | 
When about to change to a pupa it remains in its rude shelter — 
or hiding-place under the loosened leaves of the shoot, whereit — 
turns to a chrysalis, without spinning a regular, even, thin cocoon. — 
It remains in the chrysalis state about six days. Those pupatiig 4 
at Brunswick, Me., June 28 and 29, issued as moths July 4 and $. ‘ 
When the moth is ready to break forth from the pupa, the latter 
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wriggles part way out of. its hiding-place, and the moth issues, 
leaving the rent pupa skin projecting half way out of the end of 2 
the shoot. The moths then appear from the first to the middle of i 
July. July 16, after our return from an absence of two 
we found that the moths of both sexes had issued, and jaa $ 
females had laid their eggs in curious little patches on the i 
of the breeding-box. They must have issued about the sthto t 
of July, and immediately laid their eggs, as in one ep" | 
shells were empty, with a small orifice in the shell, out of pe a 
the larvæ had crept. Another patch was found with a daya 
in each egg, showing the head of the embryo caterpii , 
hatched July 18, 19. It thus appears that the embryo GY" 
and the caterpillar hatches, in about ten days after the egg* 
laid. 
The eggs are very curious and very one of 
moths. They are pale-green, scale-like, than 
moderately convex above, oval cylindrical, a little pp ‘ 
broad, and in all those which I examined, both those com 
From the form and size of the egg-mass it 15 €V! 
by the moth to a terminal twig. The caterpillars 
not, as Fernald observes, eat the shell. They 
soon after the middle of July, and it is most PP 
caterpillars become partly, perhaps almost ne terminal $% 
the end of autumn, and pass the winter among z wing June? 
of the tree, to finish their transformations the fo ri jet? 
uly. It is certain that there is but a single br NATURA 
Professor Fernald, in his article in the AMERICAN ps the wo 
scribes the process of egg-laying. e has bree ous P sites * 
an ichneumon (Pimpla conguisitor), several i rki 
a hair-snake. We have found the insect to without"? 
from parasites, having bred about 25 of the mO 
any parasites.— A. S. Packard, Jr. 
