ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



TORTRIX VIRIDANA. LinnL 

 Pea-green Tortrhv. 



Wings of a rhomboid shape, the upper ones green 

 and without spots, the lower wings of a dirty white 

 colour. It inhabits the oak and is very common 

 about the end of June. 



The caterpillar is naked, green, with black dots ; 

 the hinder feet yellow : it feeds spun up in the leaves 

 of the oak. About the beginning of June it changes 

 to a brown pupa, with a bifid stylus at the hinder 

 part, within the oak leaves wrapped up and fastened 

 by a web, and after remaining so for fourteen days, 

 the moth appears. 



In some years these caterpillars are so numerous 

 as to completely devour the foliage of the oaks ; they 

 feed at night, and at break of clay they may be heard 

 eating. 



In capturing the smaller Lepidopterous insects, we 

 have always found pill boxes to answer best, and not 

 more than one specimen should be put in each box : 

 as many insects may be taken in a short time, of 

 course, the collector must take two or three dozens 

 of boxes with him in his excursions. In killing the 

 smaller moths, the lid of the pill boxes should be 

 opened a little way and then placed beneath a bason, 

 or tumbler, and a lighted match, or a little sulphur 

 on paper, placed under the bason will kill the 

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