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On the hind wings the line is straight, broader than on the fore wings, and extends 
upon the costa. The body is half an inch (.50) in length, and a fore wing measures 
.65 of an inch in length, expanding 1.30 inches. 
5. THE JUNIPER BASKET WORM. 
Thyridopteryx ephemereformis (Hayworth). 
Order LEPIDOPTERA; family BOMBYCID.®. 
Feeding sometimes in great numbers on the juniper and the white cedar, a worm 
living in a large case 1-2 inches long, covered with bits of wings, the female wing- 
less and worm-like; the male dark brown, with small hyaline wings. 
This remarkable worm we have found on the juniper tree in Virginia, 
and according to Harris it sometimes abounds so as to be very destruct- 
ive to the white cedar (Cupressus thajoides) in lawns. The following brief 
account is taken from my ‘‘Guide to the Study of Insects.” The male 
of the basket-worm is stout-bodied, with broadly pectinated antenne 
and a long abdomen; the anal forceps and the adjoining parts being 
-apable of unusual extension in order to reach the oviduet of the female, 
which is wingless, cylindrical, and in its general form closely resembles. 
its larva, and does not leave its case. On being hatched from the eggs, 
which are, so far as known to us, not extruded from its case by the 
parent, the young larve immediately build little elongated basket-like 
shallow conical cases of bits of twigs of the cedar, and may then be 
seen walking about, tail in the air, this tail or abdomen covered by the 
incipient case, and presenting a comical sight. The case of the full- 
grown larva is elongated, oval ¢ylindrical, and the fleshy larva trans- 
forms within it, while it shelters the female through life. | 
As aremedy hand-picking is an easy and thorough means of getting 
rid of these creatures if abundant enough to be annoying. 
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE COMMON JUNIPER (Juniperus communis). 
1. THE LOW-BUSH JUNIPER INCH-WORM. 
Eupithecia miserulata Grote. 
Order Lerripoprera; family PHAL#ANID®. 
Feeding on the common low spreading juniper bush, a small pea-green span worm, 
with a narrow thread-like subdorsal, and a wider lateral white line, changing early in 
June to a chrysalis contained in a thin white cocoon, the small moth appearing at the 
end of the month and through the summer. 
This small delicate common moti was reared by Mr. Cassino at Salem, 
Mass., and like its European congeners lives on the bush juniper (not 
on Taxus baccata, as stated in my Monograph of geometrid moths). The 
larva was found late in May, and June 4 began to spin, the pupa being 
inclosed in a slight white cocoon. It ranges from Maine to Texas. 
Larva.—Of the characteristic form, being rather thick in the middle, the body 
seen dorsally decreasing in thickness from the tail to the head. Supra-anal plate 
