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Thyridopteryx ephemerseformis Haw. 



The Bag-Worm. 



The cases of this caterpillar which feeds on so large a number of 

 our fruit, forest, and other trees (see \st Rept. Ins. N. Y., p. 84), have 

 been sent to me from Sargeantville, N. J., taken from quince trees by 

 Mr. Anderson Bray, who reports them as occurring by hundreds on 

 these trees. 



The species is not recorded in "Saunders' Fruit Insects" among 

 the pests of the quince, nor is it often noticed thereon. In the 

 American Entomologist, i, 1869, p. 250, it is identified by Mr. Walsh, 

 in examples received from Georgetown, O., and represented as literally 

 stripping many of the quince trees in an orchard, although the larvae 

 were at the time but about one-third grown. 



These records would seem to be sufficient to give it place among 

 the insects affecting the quince — the list of which is as yet compara- 

 tively small compared with those that attack other fruits. 



Erebus odora (Linn.). 



In the Fourth Report on the Insects of New York, 1888, p. 138, a 

 number of captures made of this comparatively rare Noctuid in the 

 State of New York, are given. In addition to these, it may be 

 recorded that a female, in fair condition, was taken at sugar, at 

 Jamaica, L. I., on August 12, 1890, by Mr. J. V. D. Walker. 



The time of appearance of this moth is extended over nearly one- 

 half of the year — in June, August, September and November. 



Tmetocera ocellana (Schiff.). 

 The Eye-Spotted Bud-moth. 

 Inquiries are frequently received of a small caterpillar discovered 

 on apple and other fruit trees, feeding among the opening leaves or 

 burrowing into the green tips. It is of a dull-brown color, with its 

 \J.--^ head and front part of its body black, and bearing a 

 ^gUti0 f6w short scattering hairs. When full grown, it is 

 ""^'^ about half an inch long. In its perfect state it is a 

 __^^^^^--. small moth known as the Tmetocera ocellana or eye- 

 FiG. 28. — The spotted bud-moth, from the eye-like markings on the 

 eye-spotted bud- front wings and its feeding habit. It feeds on pear, . 

 ™cELLANA andTts cherry, and plum buds, as well as on those of the 

 caterpillar. apple. The caterpillar may be found during early 



May, boring into the base of the blossom buds, which it ties together 



