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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 
CHERRY. LEAVES. 
©1. Spotted ermine moth, Hyphantria cunea, Drury. 
Caterpillars similar to those of the Fall web worm, and like it 
forming a large cobweb-like nest on the ends of the limbs of the 
wild cherry, willow and other trees in autumn. The moth a milk 
white miller with its anterior feet black on their fore side and 
alternated witli black and white on their hind side. Its anterior 
shanks are black in front and the thighs and hips orange yellow. 
In the male the fore wings have numerous small black spots and 
dots which do not appear in the other sex. Width 1.30 to 1.60. 
The males vary greatly in the number of their spots, and fre¬ 
quently there is a curved black band upon the middle of their 
fore wings cut across only by the white veins. This species, 
named in allusion to its fore wings punctatissima or many dotted, 
by Smith and Abbot, and cunea or w r edge spotted, by Drury, wa 9 
described by the latter from specimens captured in the vicinity of 
New-York city, and S. Calverley, Esq., of Brooklyn, to whom I 
am indebted for a suite of specimens showing its several varieties, 
informs me it is quite a common insect there. But I have no 
knowledge of its occurrence anywhere north or west of the High¬ 
lands. 
The Apple tree caterpillar, No. 28, 
Vaporer moth, No. 32, 
Canker worm, No. 38, 
Apple Tortrix, No. 40, and 
Palmer worm, No. 42, may all be found feeding upon the 
leaves of the cherry. 
92. Cherry slug worm, Selandria Cerasi, Peck. (Ilymenoptera. Tcn- 
thredinidsc.) 
In June and July eating the upper surface of the leaves and 
leaving the veins and skin of the under side entire; small shining 
slimy slug worms of an olive brown and blackish color, dull yel¬ 
low beneath, tapering and swelled anteriorly, resembling young 
tadpoles; several often feeding upon one leaf; maturing in four 
weeks and then burying themselves under ground through the 
winter; changing finally to a small glossy black fly with four 
