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find no difference except in size. Guenée says the larva of micacea is of 
@ carneous-gray color and that it lives in sedges. Lederer says the 
larve are pale yellow, with darker tubercles and horny plate on the 
neck, and live when young in the stems, later on the tuberous roots of 
Cacalia. Sepp figures the larva of micacea as of an obscure violet, in the 
stems of Rumex. This range of variation includes the different appear- 
ances assumed by our larva in its growth, but for the present, perhaps, 
the species had better be retained as distinct. H. obliqua Harvey, is, 
however, undoubtedly only a local variation of immanis ; and as hop- 
growing in Washington Territory, whence that insect comes, is assum- 
ing large dimensions, we may expect soon to hear complaints of damage 
done there by the * grub.” 
THE HOP SNOUT-MOTH. 
(Hypena humuli Harr.) 
The larva of a small, obscurely colored and marked moth was found 
in spring, at Herkimer, in a single low-lying yard. A hill yard close by 
was entirely free from it, and at Waterville I found no traces of it. The 
caterpillar is pea-green, speckled with minute black dots giving rise to 
short hairs, and there are two paler whitish lines on the back and one 
on each side; it has 14 legs, and when walking bends up the back a 
little. On June 22 I found a few specimens of the larve ; they were then 
about an incl in length and very active, dropping from the leaf the 
moment they noticed approaching disturbance and making for some 
place of concealment on reaching the ground. The few specimens I 
gathered died. On July 14, in the same yard, [ saw perhaps half a 
dozen specimens of about the same size. They did no particular harm, 
eating holes in some of the lower leaves, but not to a noticeable extent. 
The larva when full-grown spins a thin, silken cocoon in a folded leaf 
or in some crevice, changes to a brown chrysalis and soon after comes 
forth as a moth whose wings measure about an inch or a little more 
when expanded. The color varies from rust to black brown; they are 
slightly mottled with paler markings, have an oblique paler dash at 
the tip, and a sealloped, more or less distinct, pale transverse line beyond 
the middle of the fore wings. The hind wings are dusky, without evi- 
dent markings. <A peculiar feature of the moth and one by which it can 
be easily known is the projecting snout, formed by the long, flattened 
palpi or mouth-feelers which are held close together and projecting hori- 
zontally forward. There are said to be two broods, but I did not succeed 
in finding the larva again later in the season, and to nearly all growers 
of whom I inquired the insect was entirely unknown. Should it be- 
come numerous it can be controlled by taking advantage of its habit 
of at once dropping to the ground when disturbed; by brushing with a 
stick up and down the vines the larva will be induced to drop to the 
ground where a big foot, rightly placed, will prove a complete remedy. 
It will not take long and need be done but once or twice. 
