OP THE FARM AND GABDBST. 



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hibernates in the chrysalis state. We do not know that 

 it feeds on anything but cabbage, but we once found a 

 male chrysalis fastened to a stalk of the common " Horse 

 N"ettle," {Solanum Carolinense) which was growing in a 

 cemetery with no cabbages within at least a quarter of a 



THE CABBAGE PLUSIA. 

 (Plusia brassiccB, Eiley.) 



This is the next most common insect which attacks the 

 Cabbage with us, and curiously enough it has never yet 



Fig. 23. — THE CABBAGE PLUSIA {Huxia brosdcw). 

 ^ a, Larva; b, Chrysalis ; c, Moth, male. 



been described. It is a moth and not a butterfly, and 

 flies by night instead of by day. In the months of Au- 

 gust and September the larva (fig. 23, a), may be found 

 quite abundant on this plant, gnawing large irregular 

 holes in the leaves. It is a pale-green translucent worm, 

 marked longitudinally with still paler more opaque lines, 

 and like all the known larvae of the family to which it 

 belongs, it has but two pair of abdominal pro-legs, the 



