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GRAFS. LEAVES. 
basal half of the abdomen, and are black with a net work of irregular coarse 
elevated veins of a pale yellow color and an elevated dot of the same color in 
the centre of most of the cells. Length 0.18. Several specimens have been 
sent mo from west of Arkansas by Mr. Robertson, and I also found it in 
Illinois. 
116. Vine Aphis, jfphis Vitisl Scopoli. (Homoptera. Aphid®.) 
A plant louse is reported as very destructive to the leaves and 
young shoots of the grape at the south, which perhaps is the 
same insect which infests the vine in the southern parts of Europe, 
but as no description of it is given we are unable to judge whether 
it possesses any resemblance to the foreign species. See Patent 
Office Report, 1854, p. 79. 
2. Forming excrescences upon the leaves 
117. Grape leaf'louse, Pemphigus VUifolite, Fitch. (Homoptera. 
Aphidse.) 
Early in June, a small globular gall the size of a pea, growing 
upon the edges of the leaves, of a red or pale yellow color and 
its surface somewhat uneven and woolly, with a cavity inside, in 
which is a pale yellow louse of a flattened hemispherical form, 
with short blackish feet. Length 0.04. See Transactions, 1854, 
page 862. 
3. Worms eating the leaves. 
118. Vinedresser, Chcerocampa Pampinatrix, Smith and Abbot. (Lepi- 
doptera. Sphingidee.) 
Eating the leaves and nipping ofl' the fruit stalks, causing the 
clusters when but half grown to drop to the ground} a thick 
cylindrical worm, tapering anteriorly, its third and fourth rings 
thicker and slightly humped, a short horn at the end of its back, 
forward ol which is a row of five round rusty yellow or clay 
colored spots, surrounded except on their fore side by pale yellow; 
ground color pale green freckled with pale yellow dots, when 
mature changing to pale dusky olive with a dusky stripe on each 
side of the buck, below which is a broad bluish or pink white 
stripe sending five branches obliquely downward and forward 
