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FOREST ENTOMOLOGY. 



The plants in question were from 3 to 4 feet high, and the injuries 

 consisted in the top shoots heing arrested in their development. 

 Every practical man knows that conifers in general make but a very 

 short leading shoot the year following transplanting, and that in the 

 early stages of growth the whorl of lateral branches stands erect and 

 surrounding the leading shoot. In this particular case the injuries 

 inflicted by the larvae resulted in not only eating the young leaves, 



Fig. 252. Shoots of English yew (Taxus 

 baccata) injured by larvrc of Batodes 

 angustiorana. 



Fig. 253. Shoot of holly injured by Paeduca 

 ophtlialmicana. 



but in soldering the whole of this whorl together, so that in many 

 cases the leading shoot and lateral branches Avere either very much 



weakened or otherwise killed outright. 



PiEDISCA OPHTHALMICANA, Hub. 1 



If the holly hedges are examined about May or June, it will be 

 found that the leaves of the terminal shoots are often drawn to- 

 gether by a small silken thread, thus forming a sort of rosette 

 (fig. 253). It will be found that each rosette is tenanted by a single 

 small caterpillar, and in many cases they are very abundant on hedges 



1 It is possible there are several closely allied species doing similar damage, so 

 that implicit confidence should not be placed in the name of this species from the 

 damage alone. 



