ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



ZEUZERA yESCULI. Latr. ? 



Wood Leopard Moth. Female. 



White : the wings with numerous bluish-black 

 spots, six or eight on the thorax : antennas short, 

 very plumose from the hase to the middle, end in a 

 fine point ; in the female white and very downy at 

 the base and terminating gradually in a point. 



Expansion of the wings in the female, 2 inches 7 

 lines. 



Inhabits the lime tree the end of June and begin- 

 ing of July. 



The caterpillar is yellow with black dots, with a 

 black horny head, and is very injurious to fruit 

 trees; it feeds on the wood of the oak, apple, pear 

 and horse-chesnut ; it makes a case of the dust of the 

 wood, which it gnaws and cements together. The 

 moth makes its appearance late in June or early in 

 July, and is generally considered a rare insect. About 

 four years ago, however, Mr. Marshall found, early 

 in the morning in the month of July, about the trees 

 in St. James's Park, as many as sixty specimens, but 

 all of them more or less injured by birds. 



Our figure exhibits the female with its long ovi- 

 positor, admirably adapted to deposit its eggs in the 

 deep interstices of fissures in the trunk or bark of 

 trees. 



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