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  in diameter; about 0.05 inch (1.25 mm.) long. Eggamass about
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  one—ha1f inch long. .
  ij] Larva.—- Cyliirdrical, rather stout. Black, wxltlh tan-colored ‘
    _ stripe along the middle of the back, traversed by ~a narrower whitish  
  i stripe. Sides with dots of blue and white. FI-lead, jointed legs, iieshy _
  legs, and most of the under surface, black. Body thinly clothed
 `.:{ with soft reddish brown hairs, becoming more numerous on the
  ’  sides. Length, when ready to pupate, 1.75 inch; diameter, 0.25
  inch. ,_
5 ,; Pupa.——Stout, reddish brown, opaque, the whole surface, except- {
,.  ing tlhe antennal, leg, and wing-cases, clothed with s·hort brownish [
  _ pubescence. Antennal cases not reaching the tips of the wing-cases.  
  Extremity of abdomen, conical, bluntly rounded and without hooks  
   i or spines. Length, 0.62 inch (16 mrm.); greatwt diameter, 0.25 '
  inch (6.25 mm.). E _
 » · Imago.— A stout-bodied moth, with rather broad wings, measur- I
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  ing from 1.08 to 1.48 inches (27y37 imm.) from tip to tip; the mar- I
  gin rounded and entire. Body thickly clothed with rather long Q
 E  hairs. Color, purplish brown, the front wings divided into three E
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 j, areas by two nearly parallel oblique white lines; hind wings un- {
  j , marked. `
  The species occurs throughout the eastern states. Spraying  
    for codling rmoth ·and canker worm is ~con1m·only all that is required
  _ to keep it suppressed. But the destruction of the egg-masses wher- , ·
  L ever occurring about orchards is to ·be recommended as calculated
  to prevent outbreaks calling for much spraying.
  ‘ THE FALL was-worm.
      (H yphantriu, ounce).
    A caterpillar of medium size, clothed with rather long, soft
figj   Q   hairs, and with a broad black area extending the whole length along
    the back. Produces loose webs, enclosing twigs and leaves, on var-
    ious trees and shrubs, most numerous in the latter part of summer.
    The adult is a small white moth or miller.
  _`   ll The fall wcb—worm is always present in Kentucky, but now and
if-     l then attracts eneral attention from its lar e numbers and the sev-
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  ` . ”   1890, when it was finally attacked by a parasitic fungus (Empusa
      s . which left the dead cater illars stickin ever where to fence ·
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·;¢,`lf   posts, rails, weeds, and other objects, to which the restless worms
Y   jr . wandered after the fungus attacked them. The species has not
,;;;.1.;   since then been so common until 190*7, when in some sections of
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