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APPLE. LEAVES. 
!ar leaf, a pretty, bright leaf-green, thick, smooth worm, tapering, 
thickest anteriorly, where on each side is an eye-like spot formed 
of a black spot having a pale blue centre and surrounded by a 
pale yellow ring which is widened on its upper side and has a 
short black line in this widened part. Growing to 1.25 in length 
and 0.40 thick. The pupa naked, attached to the side of a limb 
and held in its place by a silken thread passed around its body 
in the form of a loop. The butterfly appearing in June, of a rich 
pale yellow color, its wings with a broad black border in which 
is a row of yellow spots, and with four black streaks, the inner 
one extending across both pairs. Width 3.00 to 4.75. Somewhat 
common. 
37. Red-humped prominent, Notodonta eoncinna, Smith and Abbot. (I.cpi- 
doptera. Notodontidse.) 
In August, in a cluster, eating all the leaves from the end of a 
particular limb, cylindrical prickly worms striped with black and 
tawny yellow, and on each side with white also, with bright red 
heads and a slight hump on the fourth ring, and with two rows 
of black prickles along the back and shorter ones upon the sides. 
Length 1.25. Forming a cocoon under leaves upon or slightly 
under the earth. The moth appearing the last of June; light 
brown, its fore wings dark brown on the inner and grayish on the 
outer margin, with a dot near the middle, a spot near each angle 
and several longitudinal streaks along the hind margin dark 
brown. Width 1.00 to 1.20. See Harris’s Treatise, p. 329. 
Unicoiin prominent, Notodonta unicornis, see Plum insects, No. C6. 
IIag motii, Limacodes pithecium, see Cherry insects, No. 85. 
38 . Canker worm, Nnisopteryx vemata, Peck. (Lepidoptera. Geomctridte.) 
The last of May and in June, piercing small holes in the leaves 
and when larger consuming all the leaf except the large veins. 
A very variable measure-worm, nearly an inch long, ten-footed, 
black, clay-yellow or greenish, commonly with an ash-gray back 
and a pale yellowish stripe along each side. The pupa state 
passed under ground, the moth hatching late in autumn and on 
warm days in winter, but mostly early in the spring; the female^ 
gray, without wings, crawling up the trunk of the tree to deposit 
her eggs; the male With large very thin silky ash-gray fore wings, 
