Although the Oak and many oilier trees maintain multitudes 

 of insects, none appear to support more destructive inhabi- 

 tants than the Pines. On a former occasion we called the at- 

 tention of our readers to a beetle that destroyed the young 

 Firs, by perforating their shoots ; and we now present them 

 with a Moth that in its larva state totally consumes the foliage, 

 sometimes laying waste the pine-forests of Germany. 



The larvae of our insect, like those of Sphinx Pinastri, Bio- 

 pains Piniarius, &c. are striped in a way to resemble the leaves 

 upon which they feed ; they are full grown about the end of 

 June, when they descend into the earth and become chrysa- 

 lides, and the following March the fly appears, at which time 

 no doubt multitudes are destroyed by the inclemency of the 

 season, thereby preventing the serious consequences that oc- 

 cur when such a check is withheld by the Great Author of 

 Nature ; who has protected them with a clothing that has a 

 oreater resemblance to hair than scales, and no doubt is better 

 adapted to their wants, since we find the same in Eriogaster 

 Populi, Teiliea luteicornis Haw., Biston hirtariusy hispidarius, 

 pedarius, and many other moths that make their appearance at 

 an early period of the year. 



A. spreta was described by Fabricius in his Mantissa Insec- 

 torum under that name, many years before Kob published an 

 account of it calling it Nochia Pinijjcrda. Panzer when he 

 figured it in his Fauna Insectunim Germanica; restored the 

 original name ; and we are bound to do the same, although 

 Kob's is certainly more applicable. It was unknown in our 

 British cabinets until 1811, when Mr. Stephens captured a 

 specimen near Hertford, since which time it has been found 

 in the larva state at Birch Wood in Kent, and near Ripley in 

 Surrey, where that gentleman informs me it was abundant last 

 year ; at the former place the moth has been found by col- 

 lectors in the flowers of the white thorn as well as in Norfolk. 



For the drawing of the Caterpillar, (which is represented upon 

 a sprig of Pinus sylvesh'is,) we are indebted to Mr. Raddon. 



