CHLORIDEA RHEXLE. 19D 



deeper towards the hinder margin of the wings; 

 antennas also reddish. 



The caterpillar is dull yellowish-green, having a 

 narrow white line along the sides, and a yellow one 

 a little above it, and there is a small reddish spot 

 on each segment between these lines. It eats the 

 buds and blossoms of the Bhexia Virginica^ as well 

 as those of the tobacco plant, proving often very 

 pernicious to the latter by destroying the main shoot. 

 The only method employed to get rid of it is to 

 throw hot sand or wood ashes upon the plants ; 

 sometimes also the caterpillars are picked off with 

 the hand. Abbot found one of the individuals he 

 kept enter the ground and spin a web there on the 

 25th July, and the fly came out on the 9th August. 

 The insect is a native of Georgia, but is not com- 

 mon. 



