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into perfect insects. It is also of much importance to destroy the nests where- 

 ever found, even upon the wild cherry trees and persimmons, in the hedge rows 

 near the public roads, where the fjirmers think they do no injury, as it is from 

 these uncared for and almost unnoticed nests that the countless hordes of perfect 

 moths issue which do so much injury to the orchards. The scientific name of 

 the perfect insect is Hyplwntria textor; the word Hijphantrla being derived 

 from the Greek word signifying weaver, in allusion to the Aveb woven by the 

 caterpillars, which are commonly known by the name of fall web Avonns 

 These caterpillars form large cobweb-like nests, generally toward the ends of 

 limbs, where they devour the leaves in and around them. In this web they 

 live together in societies during the months of August and September, when 

 they afterwards disperse to change into pupse. These pupaj are formed in thin, 

 almost transparent, cocoons of silk intermingled with hairs, in which they remain 

 all winter; and they may be found under the bark of trees, fence rails, or 

 wherever there is a convenient shelter. The following June or July the perfect 

 insect makes its appearance, and deposits its eggs upon the leaves or extremi- 

 ties of the branches, to be duly hatched into a brood of caterpillars in a short 

 time. iSuch being a brief statement of the habits and natural history of this . 

 insect, it will be perfectly self-evident to any person that the most proper time 

 to destroy them is now, when they are congregated together in their web, and 

 not when they arc dispersed all over the fences and fields as pupa; or perfect 

 moths. Let all the farmers of a certain district join together in destroying 

 these nests, by pulling them down or btirning them, and they will have very 

 little of this nuisance next autttmn. The moth produced from this caterpillar 

 is white, withottt any spots on the wings, and has the thighs of the fore legs of 

 a tawny yellow color in front, while the feet are black and white. 



As the grajje vine has now become a sttbject of the greatest importance not 

 only to the agriculturist, but to every farmer, we have received a number of 

 insects which have been fotmd upon it, amongst which is an insect as yet com- 

 paratively little known to our fruit-growers, which it may be of interest to men- 

 tion in this paper. It is a small beetle of a grayish-brown color about 0.20 of 

 an inch in length and covered on the back and wings with grayish hairs ; it is 

 stated to have been extremely injurious to the leaves of the cultivated grape 

 vine in Pennsylvania, and has been found on wild grape vines in Maryland; it 

 eats holos in the foliage and completely riddles the leaves. This insect is a 

 'Paclinephorus or Fidia, and bears considerable resemblance to the P. viticoltts 

 of Uhler, if it does not prove to be identically the same. As we hare received 

 no complaints of its ravages in other quarters, the conclusion is that it may be 

 only local as yet, or found merely in other places on wild grapes; it may be 

 well, therefore, to warn grape-growers of its existence, as it undoubtedly Avill 

 spread, and may, eventually, do much mischief. The correspondent who sent 

 the specimens stated that hand picking had been tried, bttt that being too slow 

 a process, he had dug tip his grape vine borders to destroy the pupa;, as he 

 thought they came out of the ground, and adds: he "thinks their numbers were 

 considerably diminished by the latter experiment." Noav, the question is, where 

 do the larvjE live, and on what vegetable substance? also, where are the pupai 

 formed '\ These facts known, it would be easy to suggest a remedy. 



The larva or caterpillar of a small moth has been very injurious to the foliage 

 of the grape vines in New York and elsewhere. This insect is called the 

 Procris A?nericana, or American Forester, by Dr. Fitch, The eggs are laid in 

 clusters of twenty or more on the underside of the leaves in June and July. 

 The larvse or caterpillars, Avhicli are of a yellow color with transverse rows of 

 black velvet tufts on each ring, and have hairs on each extremity of the body, 

 are gregariotis.and feed in companies side by side on the leaves, and sometimes 

 on the fruit. They attain their full size in August. 



In the north there is but one brood of insects durino' the season, but in the 



