292 Insect Pests. 



III. To WALNUT. 



A. LEPIDOPTERA. 



WINTER MOTH (Cheimatobia brumata. Linn.). Foliage, p. 50. 



WOOD LEOPARD (Zcuzera pyrina. Linn.). Wood, p. 46. 



VAPOURER MOTH (Orygia antiqua. Linn.). Foliage, p. 38. 



THE NUT FRUIT TORTRIX (Carpocapsa splendidana. Hb.). Fruit, 



p. 309. 

 CODLING MOTH (Carpocapsa pomonclla. Linn.). Fruit, p. 69. 



B. HEMIPTERA. 



THE DUSKY-YEINED WALNUT LOUSE (Ptycliodes juglandis. Frisch). 



Foliage, p. 313. 

 THE COMMON WALNUT LOUSE (Pterocallis juglandicola. Kalt.). Foliage, 



p. 316. 



C. ACARI. 



THE WALNUT LEAF GALL MITE (Eriopliyes triscriatus \. erinea. Nalepa). 

 Foliage, p. 318. 



I. TO COB AND FILBERT. 



THE BUFF-TIP MOTH. 



(Phalera buccphala. Stephens.) 



Inquiries have frequently been made during the autumn months 

 concerning the larvae of the Buff-tip Moth (Phalcra lucepliala). 

 These caterpillars very frequently occasion a great deal of harm to 

 the leafage of the elm, lime, beech, birch, nut, sallow, rose and oak. 

 Fruit trees are also sometimes attacked. Frequent reports come to 

 hand of their ravages on rose, elm and lime trees in and around 

 London, and also in nut plantations in Kent. Mr. F. Smith of 

 Loddington finds them in his nut plantations and Mr. Buley of 

 Woodnesborough found them attacking cobs and filberts. In 

 the same year I found them defoliating cobs at Wye and they 

 were also reported from S. Devon and elsewhere. Recently they 

 have been causing some alarm in cherry orchards (1). Mr. Lewis 

 Levy wrote in 1906 from Borden Hall, Sittingbourne, in August, 

 saying : " We have had several cherry trees whose leaves have been 

 almost devoured by the caterpillars. Over one hundred, I should say, 

 on one tree." The moth (Fig. 195) is common and very generally 

 distributed over Great Britain and generally attracts attention on 

 account of its peculiar and beautiful appearance, whilst the large size 

 of the caterpillars, and the havoc they cause, render them particularly 

 conspicuous objects. The eggs are also often sent with inquiries as to 

 their nature. 



