legilima and purpurii^Hata in cohtr, more like the i'ornier wliicli it 

 exceeds in size l)nt next to wliieli it may be placed. 



Palindia dominicata, Cnum., 11, ^;n. (Plate II, Fig. l.) This species 

 described by Ciuenee as from Hrazil, lias been taken by Belfnige Oct. 

 21st. It is a showy Koctuid. tlie fore wings satiny white with their outer 

 third l)rown, magined by an inwardly arcnate line or l)and shaded infer- 

 iorlv ocherous. The wliite tield of the wing is crossed by a broad brown 

 outwardly oldiqne band cutting it in two parts, the onter a narrow 

 triangle tapering to submedian space where the Ijand joins the dark 

 l^ortion of the wing. Hind wings tinted with light yellow with a 

 costal brown shade and a bright brown spot at the middle of the 

 outer margin surmounting a black ocellate spot. Two incomplete 

 tiansversc brown lines are medially visible. The fringe is brown 

 and seems slightly exserted opposite the median brown spot, else 

 yellowish becoming dusky at apices; a fine brown terminal line. Head 

 and collar l)rown; thorax and abdomen satiny white, the latter 

 touched with yellow at tips. Beneath ocherous with the l)rown 

 markings of u})y)er surface less distinctly repeated. 



This species is an interesting addition to our United States fauna, 

 hut it is doubtful whether it breeds in Texas. Belfrage sends me 

 a good specimen under the number 725. Guenee gives the expanse 

 of this l)roadly Avinged form as 34 mil.; the specimen sent me by 

 Belfrage expands fully ;>'.» mil. 



FRUIT AND FARM. 



[Sl-IFARRTA MORBOSA.] 



'^I'his disease so well .known to fruit growers, was, 1)y some observ- 

 ers and at one time, believed to be caused by insects, but through 

 the researches of Prof. W. (1. Farlow and Mr. C. H. Peck it has been 

 definitely decided to be caused by a parasitic fivngus, called by 

 Schweinitz Sphaeria 3Iorbom. In the following account we use free- 

 ly Prof. \\. (i. Farlow's article ])ublished by the Bnssey Institution. 



The appearance of the knot at its perfection is very much the 

 same, no matter upon what species of Frunua it is growing. If in 

 midsummer or wintei' we make a cross section of a knot in a branch 

 moi-e than a vear old we shall find one more layer of wood on the 

 s(mnd side of tlie stem than on the side of the knot. In other 

 words : on one side the growing power has extended itself in form- 



