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Annual Report of New York 
LEAP-HOPPERS. REMEDIES. FLOWBRT PRIMROSE-MOTH. ITS NAME. 
Upon our choice flowering plants we can illy brook these insects 
even in limited numbers, knowing that each one of them is daily 
wounding and bleeding the leaves and thus robbing the plants of 
some of their vigor and thriftiness. They are most easily captured 
and killed when they are young and unable to escape from us by 
flight. Therefore, any cultivated plant on which we frequently 
see these leaf-hoppers should be inspected about the middle of 
June, to ascertain if a brood of young insects is growing up on it, 
and if they are found to be present the whole plant should care¬ 
fully be looked over and every young hopper that is seen should 
be picked off and destroyed. The vigorous growth of the plant 
will be much promoted by thus relieving it from these parasites 
which are living at its expense. 
Flowery Primrose-moth, Alaria florida, Guen&e. (Lepidoptera, 
Noctuidie.) 
Eating a hole in the flower buds of the Evening Primrose (( 'Enothera ), and thus 
cutting the petals asunder; a pale green 16-footcd worm with three deeper green 
stripes, and on top of its neck two dull cherry red spots; its pupa state passed 
under ground; the next year, in July, producing a light yellow moth with bright 
rose red fore wings, having a broad light yellow hind border, its width 1.25. 
A rare and most beautiful moth, found by Mr. Edward Double¬ 
day in his collecting tour through our State in the year 1837, was 
in 1852 figured and described by M. Guenee, in the Suites a Buffon, 
Lepidopteres , vol. vi, p. 171. He found it to be intimately related 
to another elegant moth somewhat smaller in size, which had long 
been known to the world from the fine figure of it contained in 
Smith and Abbott’s Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia , where it 
received the name Phalaina ( Noctua ) Gaurce , this name being given 
it from the plant on which its larva feeds, the Gaura biennis, the 
stalks of which are represented as being sometimes stripped bare 
of their leaves by this larva. These two moths are so similar to 
each other, and so different from the other species nearest related 
to them, that M. Guen6e associates them together in a new genus, 
which he names lihodophora, i. e., rose-bearing or having a rose 
color, and he terms our New York species the. lihodophora Jlorida, 
the flowery or elegant rose-bearer. M. Guen6e was evidently 
unaware of the fact that the Georgia insect had already been made 
the type of a new genus, named Alaria by Mr. Westwood, from 
whose manuscripts this name was published in 1841, by Mr. 
