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interrupted lateral stripes. Mr. F. writes that it is destroying 

 tomato plants in that vicinity by boring a hole into the stalk about 

 the size of a large knitting needle, eating out the center until it 

 breaks over, and that plants half as large again as a lead pencil 

 have been utterly destroyed. 



Parthenos nubilis Hiibn. — Miss Emily L. Morton reports find- 

 ing frequently larvae of Parthenos nubilis feeding on RoMnioe 

 only at night, after nine o'clock ; also, Biston ursaria Walker, feed- 

 ing on the young shrubs of wildcherry and on several other plants. 



Nematocampa filamentaria Guenee. — A larva of this species was 

 found on a black walnut tree, on the tenth of June, differing 

 in color and ornamentation from other larvae that I have 

 seen of the species. Its general color is dark brown. Before 

 the anterior appendages are two transversely oval white warts, 

 one on each side of the dorsal line, and a pair of white dots close 

 together behind these; these and the curled appendages are 

 apparently on the fifth segment. On the back part of the fourth 

 are two tubercles which are nearly as broad basally as the curved 

 appendages, and about as high as .broad ; each bears a hair 

 apically. 



Bucculateix sp. ? — Mr. Shelby Reed, of Scottsville, Monroe 

 county, N. Y., sends leaves of the yellow birch, Betula lutea, 

 infested with a small caterpillar, which are very numerous (forty - 

 • eight had been counted on a single leaf) and eat the upper and 

 lower surfaces of the leaves, leaving only the transparent inner 

 tissue. " The trees infested with them have a brown and scorched 

 appearance, and light comes down through the thickest foliage as 

 through a softened skylight." 



The caterpillar is 0.18 to 0.22 long, slender, deeply incised at 

 the joints, tapering at the extremities, and subcylindrical ; head 

 pale brown, slightly bilobed, ocelli and mandibles black, mouth- 

 parts projecting ; body dull, pale green, bearing a few short liairs 

 on the usual spots, and longer ones on the first segment; terminal 

 pair of prolegs projecting. Walks slowly and hangs by a thread 

 when it falls. 



A few of the larvae had spun cocoons on the surface of the leaf 

 when received. On the following day, nearly all had made or 

 were engaged in making their cocoons. 



