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HICKORY. FRUIT. 



It is not till the latter part of September that they finally dis- 

 appear from the leaves. 



The Forest caterpillar, a species resembling the Apple-tree 

 caterpillar, No. 28, but making its nest against the side of the 

 trunk instead of in the forks of the limbs, occurs on the hickory, 

 but is more common on the oak, under which the description ol 

 it will be given. 



The FALL WEB-WORM No. 88, and the V-marked measure 

 WORM No. 39, are also common upon the hickory. A singular 

 shaped worm named The Skiff by Dr. Harris (Treatise, p. 323) 

 and several other species belonging to the genera Limacodesy Ko- 

 todanta^ Lophocampaj &c., which are not yet known to us in their 

 perfect state, also inhabit the hickory. 



Of insects in their perfect state eating the leaves of the hickory, 

 the large Goldsmith beetle No. 57, is the only one which has yet 

 been noticed. 



affecting the fruit. 



1§1. HicKORT-snucK MOTH, Ephippophora Caryana, new species. (Lepidop- 

 tera. Tortricidse.) 



A slender white sixteen-footed worm about three-eighths of an 

 inch in length mining the shucks which envelope the fruit, 

 causing the nuts to be abortive and many of them to fall from 

 the tree prematurely. 



There are few persons who have gathered hickory nuts but have 

 noticed this worm in some of the shucks and the cells which it 

 has excavated therein, filled with little grains of a tawny yellow 

 color. A specimen of the moth which comes from these worms, 

 and the pupa shell from which it issued, was sent me by Mr. 

 Lewis Potter of Easton, N. Y., in April last, with a letter stating 

 til at the insect entered its pupa state about the first of February 

 and tlie moth came out the last of that month. This doubtless 

 refers to tlie fruit when stored witliin doors, for larva^ wliicli are 

 lying on tlie surface of tlie ground, torpid or congealed by the 

 winter's cold, undergo no changes. 



The shell of the chrysalis or j)upa is of a pale dull yellow 

 color and shows upon each segment of the abdomen two rows of 



