SMALL ERMINE APPLE MOTH. 
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stripe along each side; these stripes are divided by black lines, or 
black spotted with blue, and there are black spots on and near the 
head. They go into chrysalids in cocoons, which they spin almost in 
any convenient slight shelter near their food-trees. 
Yponomeuta malivorella. 
Small Ermine Apple Moth, and cocoons in web; caterpillar much magnified. 
The “ Small Ermine” or “ Small Ermine Apple” Moths (as it does 
not appear perfectly certain whether there are two kinds, of which one 
more especially infests the Apple) are very little moths, only about 
three-quarters of an inch in full expanse of their wings. The fore 
wings are usually livid, or whitish dotted with black, and the hinder 
wings lead-colour; but they are very variable in appearance, and the 
Small Ermine Appl6 Moths are distinguishable by their fore wings 
having the black spots on a pure white ground. The Small Ermine 
Moth caterpillars are of a dirty ash or ashy white colour, spotted with 
black; when full-grown, the ground-colour is dirty yellow or lead- 
colour. They spin their cocoons in the web-nest which sheltered them 
in feeding-time, and those of the Apple Ermine are said to be white 
and opaque. 
Both of the above attacks may be to some degree remedied by 
cutting off the web-nests or rough tents of the caterpillars when they 
are within, and destroying them; or something may be done by 
crushing the caterpillars in the webs with a strongly-gloved hand, 
where the infested branches are in reach. For other preventive 
treatment see previous Reports. 
The Figure of B Moth is about an inch and a quarter in the spread of 
the wings. The fore wings brownish or grey-brown, marked, as shown 
(p. 78), with black lines and white spots, one pair of which, formed of 
two small white kidney-formed figures in the middle of each wing, form 
the marking like the number “8,” which gives its name to the moth. 
The hinder wings are brownish, with darker rays and dark patch at the 
hinder angle, as figured. 
The caterpillar is about two inches long, green or smoky green 
