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HOSE INSECTS. 
ROSE INSECTS.* 
By J. 0. WESTWOOD, Esq., F.L.S., 
THE YELLOW-TAIL MOTH. 
&C, 
Euproctis aueiflua, Hiibner, Verzeichniss, p. 159. 
Syn. Bombyx auriflua, Fabrieius, Ent. syst. iii., pt. 1, p. 
458, but not of Stephens, Wood, Westwood and Humphreys. 
Forthesia CHRXS0RRH03A, Stephens, Illustr ; Westwood and 
Humphreys' British Moths, i., pi. 18, fig. 7, 8, but not of Lin- 
naeus and Hiibner. {Male) Bombyx AtmiFiAius. Haworth. 
(Female) BoamYX chrysorrhceus. Haworth. 
BALANINUS BRASSIC2E. 
Fig. I, natural size. 
Syn. Rhynchjenus Brassicje, Fabrichts ; Stephens, Man. Brit. 
Coleopt., p. 232. Curculio arcv/atus, Marsham. Balaninv/s 
Salicivoiius, Paykull ; Stephens, Illustr. Mand., iv., p. 71. 
President of the Entomological Society. 
MELIGETHES iENEUS. 
Syn. Nitidula 2enea, Fabrlcius, Syst. Eleuth. i., p. 353 ; 
Panzer, Ins. Germ., pt. 83, fig. 6. Meligethes urticje, 
Stephens, Illustr. Mand., iii., p. 47. 
LTDA I^NITA. 
Syn. Tenthredo inanita, Villers ; St.Fargeau; Stephens, 
Illustr. Mand., viii., p. 180. (Lyda in.) Lyda inanjs, Klug 
Blattwesp. 18. 
THE LEAF-CUTTER BEE. 
Maoachile centitncularis Syn. Apis centuncularis, 
Linneeus and Kirby, but not of Fanzer, Donovan and Harris 
(which is Megachile lioniseca). 
MICROSETIA CENTIFOLIELLA. 
Syn. Tinea rcficapiteixa, Haworth, Lep. Brit., p. 586 ; 
Stephens, Illustr. Haust. 
C\)UR horticultural Mends will, we fear, scarcely thank us for informing them that that queen of 
J flowers, the Hose, is subject to the attacks of a greater number of insect enemies than almost any 
other plant or tree, if, perhaps, we except the Oak. It was, we believe, St. Pierre, who stated 
that after studying the economy of the different species of insects which frequented a Rose-tree in his 
garden for thirty years, he still found fresh subjects of enquiry ; and, in confirmation of this assertion, 
we may observe that, in our own garden, at Hammersmith, we have discovered several species on the 
Rose whose habits are of the most interesting kind, and of which several are of great rarity in the 
collections of the professed entomological amateur. In our former article on the Rose-insects, (Vol. i., 
p. 195,) we have represented several species, varying in their modes of attack upon the plant, which 
may be thus classified : — 
1. Those which feed upon the flowers when fully opened. Ex. The Rose Chaffer, which especially 
eats the pollen and nectaries. 
2. Those which feed upon the buds. Ex. The Bergrnannian Tortrix. 
3. Those which feed upon the leaves, either, — ■ 
a, By fastening several of them together with thread : Ex. The Black-cloaked Tortrix ; or, 
b, By feeding upon the leaves separately : Ex. The Caterpillar of the Anther Rose Sawfly. 
4. Those which feed on the stem of the plant, to which they have given an unnatural develop- 
ment in the shape of galls. Ex. The two species of 
Gallflies — Rhodites Rosoe, and Eylax Brandtii. 
Pursuing the same system of classification, we pro- 
pose in the present article, to illustrate the history of 
several species which attack the flowers and leaves 
of the Rose. 
The Yellow-tatl Moth. — This conspicuous 
moth varies from one and a quarter to one and three 
quarter inches 
in the expan- 
sion of its fore- 
wings, which, 
as well as the 
body and hind 
wings are of 
a pure white, 
the branches 
of the anten- 
F '9- !• nfe and extre- 
mity of the body alone being of a yellow colour. 
The male differs in having the under side of the fore- 
wings brown, and with a small dusky spot near the 
posterior angle on the upper side, which is sometimes 
slightly indicated in the female, as maybe seen in the 
accompanying figure. This sex is also distinguished 
by having a large tuft of yellow woolly-like hairs at the extremity of the body, which serve as a ( 
* Continued from Vol. I., p. 195. f| 
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