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deep-blue moth, with transparent wings, flies the last of the month 
currant bushes, and its chrysalids may be found in May in the si 
The ravages of the Currant-moth, Abraxas? ribearia, be- 
gin soon after the leaves are out. Among moths, that , 
of the American Tent-caterpillar flies during the las 
Fig. 1. June and July, and its 
white cocoons can be 
detected under bark, 
and in sheltered parts 
of fences and out- 
ouse 
mong others of the interesting medi of the Silk- 
worms, Bombycide, are Lithosia, Crocota, and its allies, 
which fly in the daytime, and the different species of 
Sica and the white arctians, Spilosoma, and Leucarctia, the parent 
the Salt-marsh Caterpillar. 
ny Leaf-rollers, Tor trices are rolling up leaves in various Ways 
their habitations, and to conceal them from too prying birds; and 
of young Tineans are now mining leaves, and excavating the ir 
seeds and various fruits. Grape-growers should guard against the 
of a species of Tortrix which rolls the leaves of the grape, and of a1 
probably a species of Gelechia, which, according to Mr. M. . Reed, of 
son, Ohio, ‘‘in midsummer deposits its eggs in the grape; 4 single eat 

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of the yet green grape, and on opening it, the winding channel 
the larva in the pulp is seen, and the minute worm, wene 



ripe n and clip out the infested berries before sendit 
table. rapid asi in its numbers would interfere | 
the sinama of the grape in this locality.” great 
e Rose-beetle, ‘i yla subspinosa, appears - them § : 
The various species of Buprestis are abundant; #0 ong 
