OF THE FAEM Ai^D GARDEIf. 



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hibernates in the chrysalis state. We do not know that 

 it feeds on anything but cabbage, but we once found a 

 male chrysalis fastened to a stalk of the common Horse 

 Nettle/' {Solamiin CaroUnense) which was growing in a 

 cemetery with no cabbages within at least a quarter of a 



THE CABBAGE PLUSIA. 

 (Plusia brassicoe, Riley.) 



This is the next most common insect which attacks the 

 Cabbage with us, and curiously enough it has never yet 



Fig. 33. — THE nABBAGE PLUSIA (Plusia brassicce), 

 a. Larva ; b, Chrysalis ; c, Moth, male. 



been described. It is a moth and not a butterfly, and 

 flies by night instead of by day. In the months of Au- 

 .gust and September the larva (fig. 23, a), maybe found 

 quite abundant on this plants gnawing large irregular 

 holes in the leaves. It is a pale-green translucent worm, 

 marked longitudinally with still paler more opaque lines, 

 and like all the known larvae of the family to which it 

 belongs, it has but two pair of abdominal pro-legs, the 



