ling moth (Carpocapsa pomonella) 
snugly buried in the depths of an ap- 
ple, looking like a little pink maggot; 
and on a lemon exposed for sale was 
a whole colony of the oyster shell 
lemon louse, (Mytilaspis citricola.) 
These insects are protected by a scale 
like covering, shaped in the manner 
of an elongated oyster shell. Al- 
though termed “lemon lice,” they are 
really allied to the well known Coch- 
ineal insect of commerce. 
Recently, in the “West American 
Scientist,” we described a new varie- 
ty of lupin found by Mrs. M. E. Cu- 
sack in Wet Mountain valley. By 
some accident it was described under 
Lupinus argenteus, but it is really a 
form of L. parviflorus, and its correct 
title is Lupinus parviflorus var. serirea. 
Mr. H. Strecker writes us that 
Smerinthus myops has been found at 
Denver. This fine moth has appar- 
ently not hitherto been recorded from 
Colorado. We have a different spe- 
cies of the same genus, Smerinthus 
astarte, in Custer county. 
It was so w£rm the other day up by 
Short Creek, that small insects of the 
genus Proconia were hopping about 
in great numbers. 
When the snow is melting, myriads 
of minute creatures are often seen up- 
on its surface, which hop about con- 
tinually. They are called skip-tails, 
and belong to the order Thysanura. 
They are perhaps identical with the 
Anchorutes nivicola, which is de- 
scribed as living on snow. 
T. D. A. C. 
4 
CUSTER COUNTY COURANT, JAN. 2, 1889. 
