GRAPHOLITHIDS. 
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Dr. Packard says that “from eggs laid the previous 
autumn on the twigs of hickories, the insect being probably 
double brooded, the caterpillars hatch out simultaneously 
with the opening of the leaves in spring, living about a week 
or ten days in this state between the folded leaves or rolling 
them up sideways or from the apex to the base; in the fold 
or roll thus made, which it lines with silk, it changes to a 
chrvsalis, remaining about a fortnight in this state until in 
the third week in June, in southern New England, it appears 
as a beautifully marked moth flying about and resting on 
the leaves.’ 
The caterpillars of this insect are rather general feeders, 
being found, besides on the plants already mentioned, upon 
the Siberian crabapple, raspberry, wild and cultivated black- 
berry, hazel-nut and Spirea, 
THE CRANBERRY-WORM. 
(Rhopotota vacciniana Pack.). 
Wherever this insect is common it causes great injury to 
the foliage of the cranberry vines and on that account is 
frequently called the ‘“fire-;worm.’”’ It has not been reported 
from our state, but doubtless occurs here. The moth (Fig. 
222) is of a dark ash-color; the 
fore-wings are whitish, dusted with 
brownand reddish scales, with nar- 
row white bands on the front edge, 
alternating with broader yellow- 
ish-brown bands, five of which are 
larger than the others, and from 
four of these, distinct but irregular 
lines cross the wings. The tips of the fore-wings are dark- 
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ciniana Pack. 
brown and very pointed; the hind-wings are dusky gray. 
In the cranberry bogs of New Jersey they are very numerous 
during the month of June, when eggs for a second generation 
