ATTACKING THE LEAVES. m 



The female, also shown in Fig. 108, is a wingless, spider- 

 like creature, with slender, thread-like antennae, yellowish- 

 white body, sprinkled on the sides with black dots, and with 

 two black spots on the top of each ring except the last, 

 which has only one. The head is black in front, and the legs 

 are ringed with black. She is furnished with a jointed ovi- 

 positor, which can be protruded or drawn in at pleasure, and 

 from which the eggs are deposited. As soon as the females 

 leave the ground, they climb up ihe trees and await the 

 attendance of the males. 



The eggs are oval, of a pale-yellow color, and covered with 

 a net-work of raised lines. They are laid in little clusters 

 here and there on the branches. 



As the habits of this insect are similar to those of the 

 canker-worm, the remedies recommended for the latter will 

 prove equally efficient in this instance. 



No. 47.— The White Eugenia. 



Eugonia subsignaria (Hubner). 



This insect has only recently been reported as injurious to 

 the foliage of the apple. It has long been known as de- 

 structive to shade-trees, particularly the elm. From a com- 

 munication to the ^^ Canadian Entomologist,'^ vol. xiv. p. 30, 

 by Mr. Charles R. Dodge, of 

 Washington, D.C., it appears ^^^' ■^^^• 



that the larva of this moth 

 has become exceedingly in- 

 jurious to apple-trees in some 

 parts of Georgia. 



The moth is pure white, 

 and measures, when its wings 

 are spread, about an inch and 

 a half across. In the male 

 the antennae are pectinated or 

 toothed (Fig. 109 represents a male); in the female they are 

 much less toothed. When resting on the trees, these moths 



