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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
which it leaves behind it to signify that 
it has made a call there. Now, you must 
observe, that if we find this rule hold 
true of the puckered and crumpled buds 
on one plant, we assume that it will be 
true likewise of the buds of other plants, 
and consequently, if in our rambles in 
some new locality we fall in with some 
plant we have never in our lives seen 
before, if we find several of the buds of 
this plant are puckered or crumpled, we 
should certainly be surprised if, on in- 
vestigation, we did not find either a 
caterpillar in proprid persona, or else its 
“ visiting card ” to say that it had been 
there. Now this has, in fact, conti- 
nually happened with some dozens of 
plants, and it is, therefore, an established 
law in Entomological Science. Hence, 
we do not send any one on a wild-goose 
chase when we recommend him to pay 
special attention in this, ‘ The Opening 
Month,’ to all obstinate buds that refuse 
to obey the call of our genial April. Of 
course it is utterly impossible to indicate 
to those who wish to profit by the perusal 
of these pages on what particular plants 
they should search for these puckered 
buds, because those arc most deserving of 
search which have not yet been dis- 
covered, and which, therefore, it is abso- 
lutely impossible for us to foresee: we 
can only try to direct the special atten- 
tion of our readers to the puckered, un- 
opened, buds, of any plant that they 
may happen to fall in with; and among 
the vast number who might thus devote 
their attention to this branch of Entomo- 
logy, surely some few might be sucess- 
ful and enrich our stores of knowledge by 
a new fact, by a discovery of the habit 
of some species which had previously re- 
mained unknown to us. 
The insect which puckers up the buds 
of the Stellaria Holostea, at this time, is 
Gelechia tricolorella : a month later the 
same plant finds its buds puckered by 
Gelechia maculea. 
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