STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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HICKORY. FRUIT. 
It is not till the latter part of September that they finally dis¬ 
appear from the leaves. 
The Forest caterpillar, a species resembling the Apple-tree 
caterpillar, No. 28, but making its nest against the side of the 
trunk instead of in the forks of the limbs, occurs on the hickory, 
but is more common on the oak, under which the description ol 
it will be given. 
The fall web-worm No. 88, and the Y-marked measure 
worm No. 39, are also common upon the hickory. A singular 
shaped worm named The Skiff by Dr. Harris (Treatise, p. 323) 
and several other species belonging to the genera Limacodes , JVo- 
todoiita , Lophocampa , &c., which are not yet known to us in their 
perfect state, also inhabit the hickory. 
Of insects in their perfect state eating the leaves of the hickory, 
the large Goldsmith beetle No. 57, is the only one which has yet 
been noticed. 
AFFECTING THE FRUIT. 
184 . Hickory-siiuck moth, Ephippopliora Caryana, new species. (Lcpidop- 
tera. Tortricidse.) 
A slender white sixteen-footed worm about three-eighths of an 
inch in length mining the shucks which envelope the fruit, 
causing the nuts to be abortive and many of them to fall from 
the tree prematurely. 
There are few persons who have gathered hickory nuts but have 
noticed this worm in some of the shucks and the cells which it 
has excavated therein, filled with little grains of a tawny yellow 
color. A specimen of the moth which conies from these worms, 
and the pupa shell from which it issued, was sent me by Mr. 
Lewis Potter of Easton, N. Y., in April last, with a letter stating 
that the insect entered its pupa state about the first of February 
and the moth came out the last of that month. This doubtless 
refers to the fruit when stored within doors, for larvse which are 
lying on the surface of the ground, torpid or congealed by the 
winter’s cold, undergo no changes. 
The shell of the chrysalis or pupa is of a pale dull yellow 
color and shows upon each segment of the abdomen two rows of 
