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potatoes in tlie liill, without being killed. I have noticed 

 that the spring brood confines itself more especially to 

 yonng cruciferous plants, such as cabbages, and also on 

 beets, spinach, etc., but hare found the fall broods collect 

 in hundreds on the heads and flower-buds of asters, on 

 the SnoTT-berrj or TVhite-berrv {Si/nqjJioricarpus race- 

 mosus); on diSerent kinds of Honey-suclde, Mignonette, 

 and on Asparagus ; they are also said to occur on the 

 flowers of Clover, and are quite partial to the common 

 Lamb's-quarter, or Goosefoot {Chenojmlium album). 

 On account of their gregarious habit when young, they 

 are very easily destroyed at this stage of their growth. 



A NEW CABBAGE WORM. 

 {Pionea Hmosalis, Guen). 



Prof. Cyras Thomas, Oarbondale, wrote to the 

 American Entomologist," in substance, as follows: *' I 

 have something new. It is a new Cabbage worm, the 

 larva of Pionea [Orobena] rimosalis, Guen., which 

 appeared late the past season, remaining on the cabbages 

 till toward the end of Xovember. It is very destructive, 

 doing as much injury to my cabbages after it appeared as 

 the imported Cabbage worm (Pieris rapm) which has 

 been very destractive here this season. The larva, when 

 full grown, is six or seven-tenths of an inch long (a 16- 

 legged Pyi'alid larva); slender, slightly flattened; head 

 shining greenish-yellow; dorsal portion of the body down 

 to the breathing pores purplish-brown; this portion 

 marked with numerous transverse whitish lines, two or 

 three to a segment; a narrow, pale yellow line along the 

 region of the stigmata; underside pale green. In the 

 breeding cages they went down to the soil, but not into 

 it, to pupate; forming a slight, regularly shaped, oval 

 cocoon, thickly covered over with sand. 



