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white ; from head and fore feet black to head and fore feet 

 amber, and even dark hone}' yellow, that I cannot but 

 believe them to be all stages of the same species, so far as I 

 have observed those sent me. I may mistake, though I 

 greatly doubt it. 



So far 1 have had most unfortunate luck in rearing 

 either the " vine worm," or the " fruit worm." Of at least 

 thirty larvge of the vine worm, I have about three pupa, 

 which show every sign of preparing to winter over, while I 

 have not hatched a miller or secured its e^jsrs, thouo;h a 

 large box, tilled with vines whose roots were kept contin- 

 ually moist with wet rags, was kept, into which a large num- 

 ber both of caterpillars and pupas were put, hoping that at 

 least one misfht survive the miller state and lay its eof^s. 



A box of several hundred berries, whose interiors con- 

 tained larva? of the berry worm, as evinced from the partially 

 or completely closed puncture in the side, succeeded no 

 better, and J>eptember 14th, at the time of tirst drafting this 

 page, not a sign of larva, pupa or miller is evident, while 

 most of the berries have shrunk to dried pods, evidencing 

 the work of the caterpillar even after the berries had been 

 put into the box. 



Of the tenacity of life of the vine worm I am assured, for 

 a specimen in a box, which had escaped my attention, for a 

 time, had concealed itself beneath a dry sprig of cranberry 

 vine, and was alive, though in a torpid or benumbed state,, 

 nearly two months after it was placed there. 



Under date of September 18th, I found that a box which 

 contains cranberry vines, and did contain a large number 

 of worais (" fire- worms") and cocoons, now has yielded a 

 large number of eggs, of this species of worm, probably ; 

 they are flat and scale-like, of a yellow yolk surrounded 

 by a whitish substance and placed singly upon the under 

 side of the leaves, one or two upon each leaf. I await 

 with impatience the time for them to hatch, which probably 

 will not be till next spring, about May 20th or thereabouts, 



I had intended summing up more carefully the conflict- 

 ing histories of both these pests, the vine worm and the 

 berry worm ; but as will be readily seen from what has 

 already been shown from the sum of our previous knowl- 



