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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 
crossed by a broad band of orange. The larva feeds on the inner 
bark and young wood of peach and plum trees, infesting them 
especially near the ground. So destructive is this pest in some 
regions as to have caused the abandonment of peach growing. 
iEgeria pyri. 
A small species, whose larva bores under the bark and in the 
young wood of the pear tree, is JEgeria jjyri. The insect expands 
half an inch. Its general color is purplish-black above and yellow 
beneath ; but the wings are transparent, with a band of copper-brown 
at the tips of the forward pair, and the body is crossed with two nar¬ 
row lines and one broad band of yellow, while the fan-shaped tuft of 
hairs at the end of the abdomen is yellow. 
