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GRAPE. LEAVES. 
red color, with the olive inner edge wavy instead of being straight 
as it is in the foregoing species, and on the hind wings this light 
red border is extended to the outer angle. 
If these pretty zebra-like worms become so numerous upon the 
vines that it is desired to exterminate them and the handsome 
moths which they produce, this object will probably be most 
readily accomplished by picking off each leaf on which a worm 
is found and throwing it into the fire or otherwise destroying it. 
Mr. T. B. Ashton, of White Creek, informs me that in 1854 he 
found upwards of 150 of these worms on his vines, which being 
destroyed, only one worm made its appearance the next year. 
He also says, when the worms leave the vines, if they can find a 
corn cob or a piece of soft decayed wood lying on the ground, 
they bore into it rather more than the length of their bodies, 
closing the orifice with their chips, and there pass their pupa 
state, in preference to burying themselves in the giound. All 
such observations as this are of value to us, and are not matters 
of mere idle curiosity, as ignorant persons suppose. If the fact 
be as above stated, it occurs to me that whenever these worms are 
noticed to be common upon the vines, their further multiplication , 
may be arrested with the greatest facility by scattering broken 
corn cobs upon the ground beneath, where the worms when they 
descend from the vines will find and will enter them, and in the 
autumn or spring following, raking these cobs together in a heap 
and burning them. 
125 . White miller. Spilosovia Virginia, Fab. (Lepidoptera. Arctiidse.) 
A large thick-bodied caterpillar two inches long, densely 
covered with soft long hairs of a pale yellow, sometimes foxy red 
or brownish color, its skin straw yellow, commonly with a black 
stripe along each side, with the joints of its body and its under side 
also blackish. This and the caterpillar of the Isabella moth 
(Spilosoma Isabella) which has hairs much more stiff and even 
shorn at their ends and of a fox red color and black at each end 
of its body, are the two common large caterpillars seen everyw ieie 
in the State of New-York, especially in autumn, often crawling 
into our dwellings and spinning their cocoons behind chests ma 
other furniture. Out of doors they place their cocoons slight 
