﻿INNOXIOUS INSECTS. 



THE YUCCA BORER.— MeffatA7/7Jius yuccce (Walker). 

 [Ord. Lepidoptera ; Fam. HESPERiDiE.] 



The following paper from the Trans- 

 actions of the St. Louis Academy of 

 Science (Vol. Ill, p. 323-43) treats of 

 an insect that is structurally interest- 

 ing, and at the same time injurious to 

 the stately Yuccas that are so esteem- 

 ed by the lovers of the beautiful in 

 parks and gardens. Though the nar- 

 row-leaved Yucca ( Y. avgustifolia) 

 naturally extends into southwest Mis- 

 souri, and the insect may yet be dis- 

 covered there, I reproduce the paper, 

 not as treating of a species that is now 

 injurious in other States and may some day become 

 so in Missouri ; but as a contribution to entomologi- 

 cal science, in accordance with my custom of devot- 

 ing, under the head of innoxious insects, a small, 

 closing portion of each Report to the consideration 

 of some insect or insects that do not particularly 

 aifect the agriculturist, but may nevertheless inter- 

 est other classes of readers. In order to adapt it 

 to this Report, I have omitted some parts of the 

 original paper, and shall add a ie^ observations, 

 made since, at the end. This is the only North 

 American butterfly which is so far known to have 



the real 

 b o r i n g^ 

 habit in 

 the larva 

 state. 



