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olive-green bands. It is said that the name Pampii.atm 

 was given to the moth because it lived upon the young 

 shoots of the vine ; I think this must be a mistake. Sir 

 James Edward Smith, who, Mr. Harris says, named this 

 species, probably referred to the caterpiQar, and intended 

 the name to be applied to the genus instead of the species, 

 as there are quite a number of these caterpillars which 

 feed almost exclusively upon the vine. The word Fam- 

 pinatrix was probably taken from pampinatio, the Latin 

 for pulling off a tender vine shoot. The Romans used the 

 term pampinating for what we call summer pruning, or 

 pinching off the ends of the young shoots. See Columella 

 and other ancient works on agriculture. 



GRAPE YESTE SPHINX. 



Am9ng the sphinges we have some of the most voracions 

 of all the caterpillars. They are literally gluttons, as 

 they never seem to stop eating from the time they are 

 hatched until they pass into the chrysaUs state. They are 

 very destructive in a nursery of young vines, as a single 

 caterpillar when nearly grown will, in twenty-four hours, 

 eat every leaf on a one-stem vine of three or four feet high. 

 The name Philampelus (lover of the vine) is very appro- 

 priate. The only way to get rid of these disgusting crea 

 tures is to pick or cut them off the vine, and destroy them 

 by crushing or bthferwise. 



Fig. TO. 



Those species that are mostly of a green color are not bo 

 readily found among the green leaves as others. The 



