376 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 



CHERRY. LEAVES. 



■77. YiOLACEOUS FLEA-BEETLE, Crepidodera violacea, Melsheimer. (Coleop 

 tera. Chrysomelidae.) 



From the middle of May till August or later, eating numerous 

 small holes in the tender new leaves at the ends of the limbs, a 

 brilliant coppery, violet or greenish black flea-beetle, 0.10 long, 

 its under side black, its attennse and legs dull pale yellow with 

 the hind thighs black. It sometimes merely gnaws a little round 

 hollow in the under side of the leaf, leaving the thin transparent 

 skin on the upper side of the leaf entire. 



Large yellow butterfly. The larva occurs on the cherry 

 the same as on the apple. See No. 36. 



7§. Glaucous butterflt, Papilio glaucuSj Linn. (Lepidoptera. Papilion- 

 ida3.) 



I have not met with this butterfly in the State of New-York, 

 but a larva identical with that of this species as figui-ed by Abbot, 

 I have repeatedly noticed upon the garden cherry and also on the 

 oak and ash, in August, resting day after day upon a thin cobweb 

 spun over the upper side of a particular leaf. The larva is like 

 that of the large yellow butterfly. No. 36, wath several blue or 

 violet dots superadded, namely, one above each of the eye-like 

 spots, four in a transverse row forward of the yellow band, a 

 , similar row on each of the three rings forward of the last, and a 

 row lengthwise low down upon each side. The butterfly is black, 

 4.75 to 5.50 across its wings, and may be recognized by a row of 

 small oval spots of a pale yellow or white color extending across 

 the fore wings near their hind edge. 



79. Purblind Sphixx, Smerinthus myops, Smith and Abbot. (Lepidoptera. 

 Sphingidse.) 



In August, a large cylindrical apple-green worm with a curved 

 horn at the end of its back, two rows of rust red spots, and along 

 each side six oblique yellowish streaks j passing the winter under 

 ground, and in July changing to a moth which may be distin- 

 guished by its hind wings, which are dark snufi" brown, their 

 inner half light ochre yellow inclosing a large round black spot 

 having a pale blue centre. Width 2.50. Rare. See Silliman's 

 Journal, vol. xxxvi, p. 291. 



