PROTOPARCE CAROLINA 



GENUS, PROTOPAR'CE. 



SPECIES, CAROLI'NA. 



Carolina is a more Southern species than celeus, or 

 rather is more common in the South than elsewhere, 

 although it is found all over the United States and in 

 Canada. It feeds on tomato, potato, tobacco, and Da- 

 tura stramonium, or jimson-weed. 



We had more than one hundred eggs from the 

 tomato-plants in the garden, and close examination 

 showed that some were globular and the others ovoid, 

 so we separated them and waited for the little crawl- 

 ers to hatch. Fully half of the eggs turned speckled, 

 then gray, then coal-black, and the upper part of the 

 shell sank to the under part, giving a withered look. 

 These eggs proved spoiled in some way and were 

 thrown out. The rest were bright green, just the 

 color of the tomato-leaves, and grew yellower and paler 

 before hatching. They were laid on either the upper or 

 under side of the leaf, and seldom more than one on a 

 leaf. When more than one are found they may be laid 

 by different moths. Some of the eggs found had no 

 depression in the upper side, a sign of their being 

 "fresh laid." These hatched on the seventh day, 

 while others hatched in four, five, and six days after 



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