2, APPLE. 
Kent. The observations previously given appear to have directed 
attention to the great mischief which the caterpillars can cause when 
present, but of which the reason is often overlooked, notwithstanding 
their great size, from their colour so much resembling that of the 
Apple-leaves. 
The damage, it will be seen on reference, is generally noticed as 
being to the young trees, and also (where it occurs at all) as completely 
sweeping off the attacked leafage. In one of the 1894 notices it is 
mentioned :—<‘ The caterpillar is very destructive; from its colour it 
is scarcely discernible, and attention is only drawn to it by seeing the 
young shoot, which it seems to prefer, entirely stripped of its leaves.” 
—(T. H.) Another observation of the same date noted regarding the 
caterpillars :—‘‘I have found seven or eight each on a separate tree 
(Apple-trees planted one or two years). They entirely denude the tree 
of all its leaves.”—(A. H.) * 
On the 25th of Feb., 1895, Mr. Sydney Lee wrote me from Crocken 
Hill, Swanley Junction, Kent :—‘ Re the Eyed Hawk Moth.—They 
are not very common in this district, as when I showed a number to 
some fruit-growers here, they looked on them more as curiosities. I 
have found quite a number during the last two seasons,—should think 
I found almost fifty during the last. I found them only on young 
Apple-trees. Although so large, we do not look on them as par- 
ticularly troublesome because of their comparative scarcity.”’ 
On the 28th of August I received a good specimen of the caterpillar 
from Mr. Charles Ramsey, of the Fruit Nurseries, Crawley, Kent, with 
enquiries as to its name and history, and mention that it was ‘not a 
very troublesome pest at present, being only found on Apple-trees here 
and there about the nursery’’; but that it eats all the leaves of the 
young trees, then drops to the ground, and burrows out of sight. 
The caterpillar, when full-grown, is about the size figured, but it 
has been recorded as quite three inches in length; the colour of a 
yellowish or bluish-green, or of the colour known as “ apple-green ”’ ; 
the skin rough, and dotted with white, and having on each side seven 
white stripes slanting backwards at the top; the seventh stripe longer 
than the others, and continued up the horn-like process at the tail. 
This horn varies in colour: early in life it is pink; when the grub is 
nearly full-grown it is pale or sky-blue in colour, and greenish or 
black at the tip, and the side stripes, at least when the grub is nearly 
full-grown, have a line of darkish green along the front edge. The 
head (after the first moult) is triangular at the top; the claw-feet 
pinkish-brown, the sucker-feet green. The grub varies very much in 
colouring during its growth.} 
* See page 2 of ‘ Kighteenth Report on Injurious Insects,’ by Ep. 
+ For full details see ‘Larve of British Butterflies and Moths’ (Ray Society), 
by Wm. Buckler, vol. ii. pp. 99—103, 
