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THE GRAPE CULTURIST. 



olive-green bands. It is said that the name Pampinatrfa 

 was given to the moth because it lived upon the young 

 shoots of the vine ; I think this must be a mistake. Sir 

 James Edward Smith, who, Mr. Harris says, named this 

 species, probably referred to the caterpillar, and intended 

 the name to be applied to the genus instead of the species, 

 as there are quite a number of these caterpillars which 

 feed almost exclusively upon the vine. The word Pam- 

 pinatrix was probably taken from pampinatio, the Latin 

 for pulling off a tender vine shoot. The Romans used the 

 term pampinating for what we call summer pruning, or 

 pinching off the ends of the young shoots. See Columella 

 and other ancient works on agriculture. 



GRAPE VINE SPHINX. 



Among the sphinges we have some of the most voracious 

 of all the caterpillars. They are literally gluttons, as 

 they never seem to stop eating from the time they are 

 hatched until they pass into the chrysalis state. They are 

 very destructive in a nursery of young vines, as a single 

 caterpillar when nearly grown will, in twenty-four hours, 

 eat every leaf on a one-stem vine of three or four feet high. 

 The name Philampelus (lover of the vine) is very appro- 

 priate. The only way to get rid of these disgusting crea- 

 tures is to pick or cut them off the vine, and destroy them 

 by crushing or otherwise. 



Fig. 7. 



Those species that are mostly of a green color are not so 

 readily found among the green leaves as others. The 



