Sept. 1894.] 



INJURIOUS INSECTS AND FUNGI. 



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The Antler Moth. 



In the above illustration the moth (Fig. 1), larvae (Figs. 2 and 3), and pupa 

 (Fig. 4), are represented in their natural size, while the egg (Fig. 5) is greatly 

 magnified. 



When fully grown the larva is about If inch long, with 

 bulk in proportion to its length. 



The head is brown, and the rest of the body is more or less 

 of a brown colour, interspersed with deeper brown shades. 

 There is a dark coloured plate on the second segment and 

 another on the oval segment. The stripes running down the 

 back are lighter brown, and there is also a light-coloured line 

 between the spiracles, and the under part of the larva is lighter 

 than the upper part of its body. 



The pupal state lasts about three weeks ; the pupa is blackish 

 brown. 



There appears to be no effectual means of checking the progress 

 of these caterpillars but to fire the herbage in front of them, or 

 to make fires if there is not sufficient herbage to give good 

 flame and heat. 



In an attack in Thuringia large ditches were dug and cattle 

 turned into them to trample on the larvae and pupse. 



Like many other caterpillars they are, as Roller points out, 

 affected by heavy and continuous rain. 



