14 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



attendant on so long a journey by mail, has in each case resulted in the 

 death of all the ants before they reached their destination, the packages 

 being literally soaked with the honey which had escaped from their bodies' 



ON SOME OF OUR COMMON INSECTS. 

 THE GREEN GRAPE- VINE WORM—Amphipyra pyramidoides. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



The caterpillar of this species, shown in fig. 2, is occasionally very 

 destructive to the grape vine, with us more particularly affecting those 



Fig. 2. 



grown under glass, although it is not by any means confined to this plant, 

 feeding readily on the plum, pear, thorn, raspberry and poplar. The larva 

 is found early in June, and is full grown usually about the middle of the 

 month. Its length is from one and a quarter to one and a half inches, the 

 body tapering towards the front and thickened behind. The head is 

 rather small, flattened in front, and of a whitish green color, with the jaws 

 or mandibles tipped with black. The body is whitish green, a little 

 darker on the sides, with a white stripe down the back, a little broken 

 between the segments and widening somewhat behind. There is a bright 

 yellow stripe on each side close to the under surface, which is most 

 distinct on the hinder segments, and a second one of the same color, but 

 fainter, half way between this and the dorsal line : this latter is more 

 distinct on the posterior portion of the body, and follows the peculiar 

 prominence on the twelfth segment, as shown in the figure. The under 

 side of the body is pale green. 



When full grown, this caterpillar changes to a dark brown chrysalis, 

 either at or a little under the surface of the ground, from which the moth 



