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bitten in the foot by a Cicada. The foot immediately swelled to huge poro but by 
various applications the inflammation allayed, r. Winston, 
who relates this, stands as high for titetltinel an agian as any one in Ba h inity. I 
— on kapa hearing the story, that pro obabis the stin as by some other insect, but Mr. 
Win that he saw the Cicada. But perhaps this proves that the ese is not fatal; that 
a on tpa subject. Some persons velar yin from the bite of a musquito, while others 
scarcely me ; sepa The cu stai of a eii UE s is DERIT pant este and perhaps the 
part. 
We figure the Saoxine Moth and the larva (Fig. 1) and pupa, which 
sso on a the last 





the 
hae aa (Fig. 2; 
a, pupa), known in Eng- 
land to ve a parasite of 
the Humble-bee. We have 
frequently mét with it 
here, though not in Humble-bees’ nests. The larve feed ep upon the 
young bees, according to Curtis (Farm Insects). The indle-worm 
Moth, Gortyna zee, whose caterpillar rong in the stalks e Ti corn, 
and also in dahlias, flies this month. The withering of the leaves — 
Fig. 2. t 

Scolytus) appear again this month. 
During = month the Tree-crick- 
et, Æcanthus niveus (Fig. 3), lays 
= eggs in ght branches of peach 

trees. It will also eat tobacco lea 
babe figure (Fig. 4) the moth of Budatinia subsignaria, the larva of which 
Is so injurious to shade trees in New York City. It is a widely diffused 
wy species, occurring oie ing tr the Northern 
"from Mr. i 
Andrews the su 
posed larve of this 
oth. They are 
‘‘loopers,” namely, 
ith a looping gait, as if meas- 

Walk w 

w : 
silja unusually large rust-red head 
a also red. They are little over an inch long. 
” larva, referred to in the Calendar for June, 
is the Gartered 
