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brown color, and I have good reason to believe that it deposits its 

 eggs in the grape-vine in a row of punctures, each of which is about 

 one-third of an inch apart, and each of which leads to from ten to 

 twelve narrow eggs, about a tenth of an inch long, and deposited on 

 either side of the puncture, length-wise in the pith. 



Remedy. — The crickets themselves should be crushed whenever 

 met with, while the vineyardist should make a business of searching 

 in the winter time for all punctured twigs, and by burning them, 

 prevent their increase in future. 



THE RASPBERRY GEOMETER, Aplodes ruhivora, N. Sp. — PL 2, 



Figure 25. 



(Lepidoptera Geometridaa.) 



The lovers of those most exquisite fruits, the Raspberry and the 

 Blackberry are often greatly disgusted by the discovery of the fact 

 that instead of the delicious berry which they expected to enjoy, they 

 are munching the small caterpillar now under consideration. This 

 caterpillar was quite numerous last summer on both the above named 

 fruits at South Pass, Illinois. It has the peculiar faculty of thorough- 

 ly disguising itself with pieces of dried berry, seed, pollen, and other 

 debris of the fruit, which it sticks to a series of prickles with which it 

 is furnished. Add to this disguise the habit which it has ot looping 

 itself into a small ball, and it almost defies detection. It is most nu- 

 merous during the months of June and July. Through the kindness 

 of Mr. T. A. E. Holcomb, of South Pass, I was enabled to breed this 

 insect to the perfect state. From two specimens of the larvae which 

 he sent me, I bred from one, July 9th, the little moth which is illus- 

 trated at Plate 2, Figure 25, the other being infested with a parasite 

 which formed a tough cocoon, very much like that of a parasitic fly 

 ( Campoplex fvffitivus,S&y), which I have bred from milkweed feeding 

 larvee of Euchatus egle, Harris. This little moth is of a delicate light 

 grass-green color, with two paler lines running across both wings as 

 in the figure. It belongs to the genus Aplodes, and as I am informed 

 by Dr. Packard, comes very near to glaucaria Gu6nee, and has not 

 hitherto been described. In the proceedings of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History (Vol, IX, pp. 300-2 ) Mr. Walsh has described an oak- 

 feeding Geometer which closely resembles this, both in the larva and 

 perfect states. He erected the new genus IIipparc7iiscus, for it and 

 gave it the specific name venustus. It is a much larger insect, and 

 differs in sundry respects from the species under consideration, though 

 the moth is of the same color and somewhat similarly marked. 



Aplodes rubivora, X. Sp. -Lru-ra— Average length 0.80. Color light yellowish-gray, darker 

 just behind each joint, and very minutely shagreened all over. On each segment a prominent 

 pointed straight projection each side of dorsum, and several minor warts and prickles below. Two 

 very slightly raised, longitudinal lighter lines along dorsum, between the prominent prickles. Ten 



