10 
APPLE AND ORCHARD ATTACKS. 
locality in which this state is passed, and other points bearing on 
means of prevention), I have given the histories and also figures of 
some of the most important of those, of which specimens were sent 
me, in the following pages. 
Lackey Moth. Clisiocampa neustria, Curtis. 
Clisiocampa neustria. 
1, cluster of eggs; 2, caterpillar ; 3, moth. 
The Lackey Moth-caterpillars have been one of the kinds most 
especially destructive in the last season. These are very easily known. 
They are about an inch and a half long when full grown, hairy, and 
partly of bluish-grey colour, striped with black, scarlet, blue, and 
white. They may be generally described as spotted with black on, 
and near, the head ; on the rest of the body they are ornamented 
with a white stripe along the middle of the back, and three orange or 
red stripes along each side, between the two lowest of which on each 
side there is a blue stripe; these gaily-coloured markings being 
divided by lines of black, or black spotted with blue. They feed on 
various kinds of trees, but are especially injurious to Apple-leafage. 
The eggs are laid in the preceding year to that in which the attack 
takes place, and they may be found in winter and spring arranged in 
a compact mass, or rather ring-like band on the wings, exactly as 
figured above. The caterpillars come out from these about May, and 
at first are black. They live in companies of as many as fifty to two 
hundred, and spin a joint web, under the shelter of which they live in 
bad weather, or at night, and go out from their web-tent (which is 
enlarged as may be needed) to feed. When full-grown, which is 
about the middle of the summer, they scatter themselves separately, 
and do not go doim into the ground to turn to chrysalids, but spin 
cocoons anywhere in reach of their food-trees, as on leaves, or in 
