1868 



ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



may have pushed above 1 in. in length. Cobbett recommends gathering the 

 KOTOS before they are quite ripe, drying in the sun, and packing in dry sand; 

 but by this mode, we think, the vital principle would not be so well preserved 

 as by [nuking them in .Sphagnum. 



Insects. In America, the white oak is infested with numerous insects, some 

 of which are figured in Abbott and Smith's Insects of Georgia. Phalae N na 

 ('r PygieYa) albitYons (t.80., 

 and our fig. 1728.), the white- 

 tip moth, is by no means a 

 common kind. The cater- 

 pillar, which is of a pinkish 

 colour, striped with yellow, 

 white, and black, has a fine 

 polish, as if glased or var- 

 nished. The whole brood 

 feeds together, especially 

 when small. One observed 

 by Abbott spun itself a thin 

 white web, bet ween the leaves 

 of the oak, on October 28th, 

 and came out on the 18th of 

 February. The chrysalis is 

 of a reddish brown, and the 

 perfect insect of a dull brown, 

 tinged with yellow. PhalaeYia 

 (Notodonta) Aurora {Abb. 

 and Smit/ift. 87., and our Jig. 

 1729.), the pink and yellow 

 prominent moth, was taken 

 by Abbott on the white oak. " The caterpillar went into the ground, 

 and enclosed itself in a thin case of dirt, on July 15th, appearing on the wing 

 on August 7th. Sometimes this species buries itself in the autumn, and remains 



till spring, at which season the moth may now and then be observed sitting 

 on the oak branches." 



Commercial 8taHttici, The name of the white oak docs not occur in any 



Of* the London Dimen catalogues of the present day, with the exception of 



that of KftfTf Lockages; neither is it in the Boilwyller catalogue. In that 



