LEPIDOPTERA 659 



longitudinal stripes low down on each side, in addition to the oblique 

 stripes; and its favorite attitude is with the fore end of the body 

 slightly raised. It is usually green, but individuals are often found 

 that are brown, or even black. There appear at frequent intervals 

 in the newspapers accounts of people being injured by a poison ex- 

 creted by the caudal hom of 

 this larv^a; but there is abso- 

 lutely no foundation whatever 

 for such stories. The prpa 

 (Fig. 8i i) is often ploughed up 

 in gardens, and attracts at- 

 tention on account of its cur- 

 rious tongue-case a part of Fig. 8ii. — Protoparce quinqnemaculata, 

 which is free resembling the pupa, 

 handle of a pitcher. The moth 



is a superb creature, expanding four or five inches. It is of many 

 delicate shades of ash-gray, marked with black or very dark gray ; 

 there are a few short black dashes on the fore part of the thorax, and 

 some irregular black spots edged with white on the posterior part; 

 the abdomen is gray with a black middle line, and five yellow, almost 

 square spots along each side. Each of these spots is bordered with 

 black, and has a white spot above and below, on the edge of the 

 segment. The hind wings are crossed by four blackish lines, of 

 which the two intermediate are zigzag. 



The most practicable method of control of this pest in a small 

 garden or in a larger field where the larvae are not ntmierous is by 

 hand-picking; when they are numerous they can be destroyed by 

 spraying with arsenate of lead; use two or three pounds of the paste 

 dissolved in fifty gallons of water. Paris green is liable to bum the 

 foliage of tomato. 



The -tebacco-worm, Protoparce sexta. — This species closely re- 

 seinbles the preceding and the two are often mistaken the one for 

 the other. The larvae have similar habits, feeding on the same plants ; 

 but in this species the larva lacks the series of longitudinal stripes 

 characteristic of the tomato worm. The moths are easily distin- 

 guished; this species is brownish gray instead of ashy gray; at the 

 end of the discal cell of the fore wings there is a distinct white spot; 

 and the two dark bands crossing the middle of the hind wings are not 

 zigzag, and are less distinctly separate; often they are united into a 

 single broad band. 



The hog-caterpillar of the vine, Ampelceca myron. — 'There is a 

 group of hawk -moths the larvae of which have the head and first two 

 thoracic segments small, while the two following segments are greatly 

 swollen. These larv^ from a fancied resemblance to fat swine have 

 been termed hog-caterpillars; and the present species, which is com- 

 mon on grape, has been named the hog-caterpillar of the vine. It is 

 a comparatively small species, the full-grown larva being but little 

 more than 50 mm. long. There is a row of seven spots varying in 

 color from red to pale lilac, each set in a patch of pale yellow, along 



