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CALIMOKPHA PEAE CATEKPILLAE. 



This is an interesting insect, in a scientific point of view, but it 

 has not multiplied, as yet, to a sufiicient extent to make it of much 

 practical importance. Its solitary habits, that is its mode of feed- 

 ing separately, or not in flocks, would render it a troublesome in- 

 sect to contend with should it ever become very numerous. The 

 only method that suggests itself to usj at present, of destroying 

 them, is by the common practice of hand-picking, or shaking them 

 from the trees and crushing them under foot. 



The following cut, made at the office of the Prairie Farmer, ex- 

 hibits another view of these caterpillars, both in their natural size 

 and masrnified. 



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