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Eudioptis hyalmata. Campbell: in Bull. 3 Ga. Agr. Expt. Stat., 1889, 



pp. 45-46 (life-history, ravages, remedies). 

 Eudioptis hyaliiiata. Smith: Cat. Ins. N. J., 1890, p. 343 (common in 



Ocean Co.); List Lepidop. Bor. Amer., i8gi, p. 75, no. 3973 



(listed as Marg ronia hyalinatd). 

 Eudioptis hyaUnata. Van Duzee : Lists Macro-Lep. Biiff.-Vic, in Bull. 



Buft". Soc. Nat. Sci., v, 1891, p. 157 (taken at Buffalo). 

 Phakellura hyaVuiatalis. Kent: in Lisect Life, iii, 1891, p. 337 (habits, 



destructiveness). 

 Eudioptis hyalinata. Moffat: in Canad. Entomol., xxiv, 1892, p. 132 



(in Canada 10 years). 

 Margaronia hyalinata. Comstocks : Manual Study Ins., 1895, pp. 231- 



232, fig. 276 (brief notice). 

 Eudioptis hyalinata. Hoprins-Rumsey : Bull. 44 W. Va. Agr. Expt. 



Stat., 1896, pp. 300, 317 (brief notice with remedies). 

 Margaronia hyalinata. Quaintance: Bull. 31 Fla. Agr. Expt. Stat., 



1896, pp. 298-300 (brief notice). 



This insect is commonly termed the melon-worm, and it is the species 

 that is most frecpiently recorded as injuring the melons in the southern 

 and western States. In New York and the eastern States it does not 

 appear to be known, being replaced by another Lepidopter, still more 

 destructive to the Cucurbitacece, viz., the squash-vine borer, Melittia Ceto. 

 It is closely allied to the insect treated in the preceding pages and in 

 habit it is very similar. It is possible that this species was also associated 

 with the preceding in the destruction of melons in North and South 

 Carolina, and Virginia. It may be this insect which a correspondent of 

 the Country Gentleman from Tennessee reported as boring in the heart of 

 melons, causing them to decay. 



Characteristic of Attack. 



Professor Willet gives an excellent account of the ravages of the cater- 

 pillar in Georgia as follows : 



At the annual meeting of the Georgia Horticultural Society, July, 1879, 

 earnest inquiry about the melon-worm was made by many of the members. 

 It w-as stated that the August crop of musk-melons was very subject to 

 the attack of worms, which were very numerous and destructive, and 

 against which no remedies had been successful. 



The only worm destructive to melons, described in the books at my 

 command, was the pickle-worm, Phakellura nitidalis. The figures and 

 description of this by Prof. C. V. Riley are copied by Prof. Packard in 

 his Report on Noxious Insects in Hayden's Report for 1875. This worm 

 is here represented as very injurious to melons, cucumbers, etc., in the 

 western states. A moth of this species was caught in my house the last 

 week in August, and was the only one seen durmg the season. 



On the same day on which this moth was caught, Mr. S. I. Gustin 

 brought me two nutmeg-melons, sayiu'^ they were the best of a load which, 

 he had just gathered. Each melon had about a half dozen caterpillars 



