ATTACKING THE LEAVES. 



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Oil the under side, and is covered with short hairs or down. 

 In about a fortnight the motli of the summer brood is hatched, 

 when one might reasonably expect that from so handsome a 

 caterpiUar there would appear a moth with some correspond- 

 ing beauty, but any sucli expectation is doomed to disappoint- 

 ment. In Fig. 51, c shows the chrysalis of the female, and 

 d that of the male. 



The female moth is wingless, or provided with the merest 

 rudiments of wings ; her body is of a light-gray color, of an 



Fig. 51 



Fig. 52. 



Fig. 53. 



oblong-oval form, with rather long legs, and is distended 

 with eggs; indeed, she is more like an animated bag of eggs 

 than anything else. (See Fig. 52, where she is represented 

 attached to the empty cocoon from which she has escaped.) 

 After her escape, she patiently waits the attendance of the 

 male, and then begins to place her eggs on the outside of 

 her own cocoon, fastening them there in the manner already 

 described. During this process her body contracts very 

 much, and soon after her work is finished she drops down 

 to the ground and dies. 



The male moth (Fig. 53) is of an ashen-gray color, the 

 fore wings being crossed by wavy bands of a darker shade ; 

 there is a small black spot on the outer edge near the tip, an 

 oblique blackish stripe beyond it, and a minute white crescent 

 near the outer hind angle. The body is gray, with a small 

 black tuft near the base of the abdomen. The wings, when 

 expanded, measure about an inch and a quarter across. 



