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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 
CHERRY. LEAVES. 
77. Violaceous flea-beetle, Crepidodera violated, Melskeimer. (Coleop 
tera. Chrysomelidae.) 
From the middle of May till August or later, eating numerous 
small holes in the tender new leaves at the ends of the limbs, a 
brilliant coppery, violet or greenish black flea-beetle, 0.10 long, 
its under side black, its attennse and legs dull pale yellow with 
the hind thighs black. It sometimes merely gnaws a little round 
hollow in the under side of the leaf, leaving the thin transparent 
skin on the upper side of the leaf entire. 
Large yellow butterfly. The larva occurs on the cherry 
the same as on the apple. See No. 36. 
78. Glaucous butterfly, Papilio glaucus, Linn. (Lepidoptera. Papilion- 
idae.) 
I have not met with this butterfly in the State of New-York, 
but a larva identical with that of this species as figured by Abbot, 
I have repeatedly noticed upon the garden cherry and also on the 
oak and ash, in August, resting day after day upon a thin cobweb 
spun over the upper side of a particular leaf. . The larva is like 
that of the large yellow butterfly, No. 36, with several blue or 
violet dots superadded, namely, one above each of the eye-like 
spots, four in a transverse row forward of the yellow band, a 
similar row on each of the tliree rings forward of the last, and a 
row lengthwise low down upon each side. The butterfly is black, 
4.75 to 5.50 across its wings, and may be recognized by a row of 
small oval spots of a pale yellow or white color extending across 
the fore wings near their hind edge. 
79. Purblind Sphinx, Smcrinthus myops, Smith and Abbot. (Lepidoptera. 
Spliingidse.) 
In August, a large cylindrical apple-green worm with a curved 
horn at the end of its back, two rows of rust red spots, and along 
each side six oblique yellowish streaks; passing the winter under 
ground, and in July changing to a moth which may be distin¬ 
guished by its hind wings, which are dark snuff brown, their 
inner half light ochre yellow inclosing a large round black spot 
having a pale blue centre. Width 2.50. Rare. See Silliman’s 
Journal, vol. xxxvi, p. 291. 
