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fested. It is supposed to have been carried into that State in carriages 
of tourists from Massachusetts. This report is by no means unexpected 
but needs verification. 
MICROPTERYX: A REMARKABLE LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVA. 
At the meeting of the Entomological Society of London, July 1, 1891 
(see Proceedings, published in the Transactions Ent. Soc., Lond., Part 
11, 1891), Dr. Algernon Chapman exhibited the larvee of Micropteryx 
caltkella, stating that they were obtained by placing the moths in a cage 
with damp moss or leaves and other débris from the surface of the 
ground. The moths crept into this to the depth of half an inch, laying 
their eggs in groups of six to twelve in narrow cavities. The larvee 
produced from these eggs had a length of about a millimeter, possess- 
ing on each segment eight processes of globular form, each raised upon 
a very Slight pedicel. The remarkable fact is that besides the thoracic 
legs each of the eight abdominal segments is said by Dr. Chapman to 
possess a pair of minute jointed legs of the same type as the thoracic. 
On the supposition that no mistake has been made, this larva is very 
remarkable in the order Lepidoptera. It is worthy of remark, however, 
that while the species of Micropteryx, so far as known, are leaf-miners, 
and nothing remarkable in their structure has hitherto been noted, since 
they are like some other Tineid miners, apodous, this species calthella 
has been placed by Heinemann in the genus Eriocephala, concerning the 
larval habits or structure of which nothing appears to be known. We 
hardly dare suggest the possibility that Dr. Chapman has mistaken 
the eggs of some other creature for those of this species; but as the 
larve are mentioned as only a millimeter long, there is a possibility 
that this peculiarity is one of the first larval stages only, and is there- 
fore comparable to other postembryonic abnormalities which are no- 
ticed in other Lepidopterous larvee. 
DAMAGE TO APPLE TREES NEAR LONDON. 
- According to Bell’s Weekly Messenger, London, July 6, many avple 
trees in London suburban gardens are in danger from the attacks of 
myriads of the larve of the small Ermine Moth (Hypomomeuta padella). 
Many trees have been killed already. Such a state of affairs as this is 
inexcusable, for the reason that this insect is not at all a difficult one to 
fight. The fact that the larve spin their cocoons in company renders 
hand destruction very easy, and where they can not be reached by hand 
a jet of kerosene emulsion from a bucket pump will penetrate the web 
and destroy the insects. In our visits to London we have always noticed 
that this insect, as also the Woolly Aphis and the Codling Moth, were 
unusually abundant and destructive to the apple trees, which are quite 
