434 
ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 
CURRANT. LEAVES. 
The larvae have as yet been noticed in this country only upon 
the hop and the elm; but in addition to these it in England has 
been found feeding upon the nettle, gooseberry, currant, honey¬ 
suckle, hazle and willow, and will probably be found upon tin- 
same vegetation here. The hop appears to be the plant of which 
it is most fond. 
Two broods of this butterfly come abroad each year, the 
one in May, and the other mostly in September. Degeer has 
remarked that it probably passes the winter in the perfect state, 
as specimens are observed in the first days of spring. I once met 
with it on the nineteenth of April, before warm weather had suf¬ 
ficiently advanced, it would seem, to have disclosed it from 
the pupa that season. And as the black Antiopa butterfly is 
occasionally met with torpid in its winter quarters, beneath a 
board or in the cavity of a decaying log and similar situations, 
where, though for months buried deeply under the snow, it will 
remain dry and in safety, to come abroad from its solitary cell 
upon the first warm days of spring, so it is quite probable some 
individuals of this species also, hatching from their pup® late in 
autumn may go into winter quarters and reappear upon the wing 
early in the following spring. But these can only be regarded as 
exceptions to the general rule, for it is not till the beginning of 
May that we commonly meet with this butterfly. I have cap¬ 
tured it much oftener than the preceding species, although it is 
probably no more common. It falls into the collector’s hands 
more frequently, as it comes abroad twice in the season and makes 
its first appearance when there are but few insects to be gathered. 
The Cecropia emperor moth No. 33, in its larva state a very 
large pale green worm with blue and yellow prickles, is occasion¬ 
ally found upon the currant eating the leaves. 
The White miller No. 125, its larva a large caterpillar 
covered with soft pale yellow hairs, feeds upon the currant leaves 
also. 
144 . Pale IIispa, Uraplata pallida, Say, (Colcoptera. Hispid* ) 
Blister-like spots upon the leaves, in which is a small tapering 
flattened worm, feeding upon the green pulpy substance of the 
