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The best, and indeed the only feasible remedy for the ravages of this 
insect is to cut off and burn, or carefully tread under foot, the whole 
portion of a branch that is covered with the web. As the worms feed 
always beneath their web, and do not wander over the tree like the Tent 
Caterpillars, this method of dealing with them is a sure one. Where it is 
unadvisable to cut off the branch, as may sometimes be the case with 
young or dwarf fruit trees, the insect may be got rid of by simply drawing 
the infested leaves through the hand and crushing the caterpillars upon 
them 
ON MR. SCUDDERS SYSTEMATIC REVISION OF SOME 
NEW ENGLAND BUTTERFLIES. 
[3RD PAPER. | 
Continued from Page 63. 
BY A. R. GROTE, CURATOR BUFFALO SOCIETY NATURAL SCIENCES. 
6. Danais, Zafr.—It is objected that our species is generally known 
as archippus, to the restitution of the name f/exippus, given by Linn. to 
our common species. It is much better toalter a label than to perpetuate 
an error. 
7. BasILarcuia, Scudd.—Together with sixty-eight specimens ot 
arthemis, Mr. Chas. Linden took six proserpina near Buffalo, N. Y. The 
material before me makes me feel sure that Mr. Scudder is wrong in 
referring Edwards’ species as a synonym of #wrswla. Traces of the white 
band and the general size make me suggest that we have possibly to do 
with a race of arthemis. But as yet we must catalogue Proserpina as 
distinct. We have a reasonable excuse for preferring wrsz/a as the trivial 
name for our common species. To this genus we must refer Z. qweidemey- 
erit. 
8. Dox-ocopa, Æubn.—Tt is not disputed, or at least should not be, 
that we have no true Afatura known from the Atlantic district. 
9. GRAPTA, Xÿrby.—The retention of Kirby’s term is defensible on 
general grounds. 
10. NYMPHALIS, Zafr. 11. PAPILIO, Lzun., restr. Scudd.—Schrank’s 
limitation of the term originally used for all the butterflies by Linn. is 
referred to by Latreille, Insecta Pterodicera, p. 198, where vanessa is 
