CATALOGUE OF INSECTS. 



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P. verruca Fabr. Staten Island, X (Ds), Hemlock Falls, Newark, V, 15 

 (Sb), Greenville, not rare. 



P. rogationnis Gn. = dyaus Grt. Near New York on wandering Jew, 

 geranium and Eupatorium. 



P. precaetionis Gn. Throughout the State, V-X : double brooded and a 



general feeder on low weedy plants. 

 P. ou Gn. Newark, X, 7 (Kp). 



Fig. 200. — The cabbage looper, Piusia brassiav ; a, larva ; b, pupa in its 

 flimsy cocoon ; c, male moth. 



P. brassicae Riley. Throughout the State and all season : the larva a general 

 feeder on cruciferous plants and seasonally injurious to cabbage. It is 

 the cabbage looper, becoming most troublesome late in the season and 

 resisting ordinary spraying mixtures quite strongly. Bran and paris 

 green applied dry will usually prove effective. 



P. oxygramma Gey. Newark, X, 7 (Kp), rare near New York (Bt). 



P. mortuorum Gn. Newark, VII and VIII ; " New Jersey." 



P. epigaea Grt. Rare near New York (Bt). 



P. basigera Wlk. — laticlavia Morr. Hopatcoug (Pm), Newark, IX, 18, 

 X, 6 (Sb). 



P. simplex Gn. Throughout the State, V-XI : double-brooded, the larva on 

 a great variety of cruciferous and other weedy low plants. 



LEPIPOLYS Gn. 



L. perscripta Gn. I have seen a New Jersey specimen, but do not remember 

 exactly where it was taken. 



CALPE Tr. 



C canadensis Beth. Ft. Lee (Dyar), " New Jersey " : larva on meadcw-rue 

 — Thalictrum. 



