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ANNUAL RErORT OF NEW-YORK 
niCKORY. FRUIT. 
minute teeth with their points curved backward, those of each 
anterior row being larger. 
The specimen of the moth being somewhat mutilated does not 
enable me to be perfectly certain respecting the genus to which 
it pertains, though everything indicates it to be an Ep hip pop horn , 
of which genus we have several undescribed species in the State 
of New-York, some of them quite common. It is of a sooty black 
color, its fore wings with reflections of tawny yellow, blue and 
purple, their outer margin black with oblique triangular whitish 
streaks placed at equal distances apart, these streaks gradually 
becoming more faint anteriorly and disappearing for a short space 
at the base, and all of them except the last three double or in 
pairs separated only by a slender black line. A very oblique 
faint silvery blue streak extends inwards from the points of two 
of these white streaks, namely, the fourth and sixth ones from the 
tip of the wing; and the usual white spot on the inner margin 
of the wings in this genus is wanting in the present species. Its 
hind wings are silvery whitish on their outer basal half, the scales 
of the inner basal portion having a blue and a gray reflection, and 
their fringe is bluish white. The face and fore breast is cream- 
yellow, the hind breast and base of the abdomen hoary white, the 
third and following segments of the abdomen coal-black. Width 
of the spi’ead wings, 0.60. 
Mr. Potter states that in his own neighborhood this insect had 
been common for a few years and became so numerous in 1856 
that several of the hickory trees scarcely produced a single nut. 
The present year, 1857, all our native fruit trees have yielded an 
unusual abundance of fruit, and I have not been able to find one 
of these worms whereby to render this account of them more exact. 
It is quite probable that, like many of its kindred, this moth will 
be numerous at times, and will then suddenly disappear, being 
destroyed by parasitic enemies, by unfavorable seasons, or other 
causes. Picking up and burning the infested nuts is probably 
the only mode whereby we can diminish its numbers. 
185. Long-beaked nut weevil, Balaninus nasicus, Say. (Colcoptera. 
Curculionidae.) 
A weevil with its remarkably long slender beak drilling a hole 
in the nut when it is young and soft and placing an egg therein, 
