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EARLY STAGES OF BREPHOS INFANS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Dwight Brainerd
Affiliation:
Montreal.

Extract

Eggs laid April 25th, side by side, packed closely together on the twig at fork of leaf bud. The moth standing head downwards with half opened wings and “see-sawing” out a string of from three to twelve eggs. Between times it runs all over the twig as do the Tineids. Egg oblong, rounded at both ends, length .87 mm., width .46 mm. Slightly roughened and punctured like the skin of an orange. Colour at first a delicate pea-green turning yellowish. The number deposited at the base of each leaf varied considerably. Hatched Hay 3rd to 5th. At birth larva 1.6 mm., semi-transparent, light sap-green with evanescent purple shades. Body cylindrical, of same approximate size throughout, ending in a strongly bifurcate anal segment. Head light yellow-brown; 1st and 2nd epicranial and 1st clypeal setæ rudimentary, the remaining eleven primary setæ well-developed blunt bristles. Ocelli prominent, dark brown. Shield concolorous. True legs transparent, with dark claws; 4th prolegs fleshy, rimmed with brown; the others not showing.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1897

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