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WOOD LEOPARD MOTH OR IBfPORTED ELM BORER. 



Zeuzera pyrina, L. 



This is an insect that was accidentally imported over fifteen years 

 ago from some European country and made its start at Hoboken. 

 It spread from that point to Jersey City, and thence northward, 

 toward Pat^rson, south to Newark, Elizabeth, and recently it reached 

 Kew Brunswick. Practically all kinds of shade trees and many 



Fig. 16. 



The wood leopard motli : a, b, boring caterpillar from ab07e and side ; c, male ; d, female motli ; 

 c, shows the work of one of the borers. From Div. Eot., U. S. Dept. Ash 



shrubs are attacked by the larva, which is both a borer and a true 

 caterpillar. The parent moth is quite large, the males measuring 

 an inch and a half and tlie females two and a half inches between the 

 tips of the fore wings. These wings are white with numerous black 

 spots, and the body is black spotted in its anterior portion. The 

 head in the male has a pair of densely feathered antennte or feelers, 

 and the abdomen extends back an inch and a half or more. Alto-; 

 eether the creature is readily recognizable and is found, during the 

 season in which it flies, around electric lights in the cities where 



