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The body mouse-gray, under part silvery ; head the same color, eyes 

 are large, the dark antennae half the length of the body. 



Examining with care, a black line forming a half crescent is apparent, 

 at the commencement of the prothorax, near the center of the folded 

 wings, or in the front third ; a second black spot appears resembling 

 the letter A, with top flattened and lacking the transverse bar. The 

 top points toward the head of the insect, the sides are on the two wings. 

 Further back is a third black spot similar to the second, bat very much 

 fainter, and the final point of the wings, a darker gray than the rest, 

 makes a last noticeable spot. The specks on the wings are too small 

 to be called spo'ts. The three pairs of legs are of different lengths; the 

 second pair has one spur, the third has two. In color they are gray, 

 with black rings. 



I have only studied these insects during the blossoming season of 

 August. Professor Penzig, who has made longer studies of them, says 

 that there are three generations in each year ; the first in April and 

 May, the second in August, and the third in October and Novem- 

 ber 5 according to him the winter is passed as an egg from this last 

 generation. The first generation in the spring from these eggs is not 

 strong or prolific, and not so harmful. The August generation is th e 

 most mischievous. They were first noted as hurtful in Corsica, later in 

 Sicily by M. Panizzi. The methods of destruction used against this 

 insect and the next two are to pick up and burn the flowers attacked 

 and to gather all grass and weeds growing near the trees, dry them and 

 burn them in heaps under the trees at night-fall. A great many butter- 

 flies attracted by the light are destroyed, besides other forms of insect 

 life, under the burning heaps. 



Epliestia guidiella (MilUere). A Phycide described by M. Milliere, of 

 Cannes, who gave it this name because he first found it upon a Daphne 

 gnedium, a shrub quite common on the hills. It seems to be polypha- 

 gous, however, as it is found on many plants; besides this they are 

 found under the whitish, sticky, cottony heaps deposited on fruit and 

 leaves by the Dactylopius citri. 



It has the form but is a little larger than the Acrolepia. It differs 

 from the latter in color, being blackish, with a band of darker shade 

 on each side, dotted or marbled. The larva is hairy ; there are hairs even 

 around its eyes. Its head and first thoracic ring are a brighter color. 

 Placed in alcohol it is a lighter shade, becoming a chestnut, the band 

 on the sides very marked. It is very lively, seems to flee the light and 

 is longer in preparing for its transformation than the Acrolepia. It 

 first makes a loose shelter, in which it spins a cocoon impenetrable 

 and whiter than that of the other, and while longer in preparing the co- 

 coon, it is at the same time longer in changing from chrysalis to but- 

 terfly, nine days instead of six. The butterfly is larger and a dark 

 gray. Its wings, instead of being folded in a spindle-shape, are folded 

 more in the shape of an acute-angled triangle. The body is mouse- 



