Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Harvard University Botany Libraries.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Fernalia ?
Moth found April 13 resting on
maple trunk. Confined with canary
food plant; among the leaves.
Laid about 40 eggs April 15-17.
Egg proport. Large, greenish yellow
subhemispherical flattened at apex,
1 X .6 mm. Marked by parallel ridges
radiating from the flattened apex when
they arise indefinitely becoming,
branched or helicoidal and
ultimately .020 mm apart. Covered
transversely by fine ridges about .010 mm
apart.
Egg hatched April 27-30
1st Stage. Larva moderately stout
greenish yellow without markings. Head
pale brownish w. black ocelli. Stripe
on III. Apparently covered by short straight
hairs. Hunched by the enlargement of