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LEPIDOPTERA. 
resemble the European Penthina comitana* and perhaps 
may be merely a variety of it. The head and thorax are 
dark ash-colored. The fore wino’s are of the same color 
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at each end, and grayish white in the middle, mottled Avith 
dark gray; there are two small eye-like spots on each of 
them; one near the tip, consisting of four little black marks, 
placed close together in a row, on a light brown ground, 
the inner marks beino; lonoi:er than the others : the second 
eye-spot is near the inner hind angle, and is formed by 
three minute black spots, arranged in a triangle, in the 
middle of which there is sometimes a black dot. The hind 
Avings are dusky broAvn. This moth expands from one half 
to six tenths of an inch. It may be called Peniliina oculana^ 
the eye-spotted Penthina. My attention AA^as called to the 
depredations of this bud-moth, and of the preceding species, 
by John Oavcii, Esq., of Cambridge, by Avhom the moths 
AA^ere raised from the caterpillars, and presented to me. It 
is difficult at first to conceive hoAV such insignificant crea- 
tures can occasion so much mischief as they are found to do. 
This seems to arise from the number of the insects, and 
their mode of attack, AAdiereby the opening foliage is checked 
in its groAVth or nipped in the bud. To pull off and crush 
the Avithered clusters of leaves containing the caterpillars or 
the chrysalids, is the only remedy that occurs to me. It 
Avere to be Avished that some better Avay of putting a stop 
to the ravages of the leaf-rollers and bud-moths that infest 
maiiA' of our fruit-trees and flowerino; shrubs could be dis- 
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covered. 
Apricot, peach, and plum trees, AA’hen trained against 
Avails in the open air, are said to suffer A’ery much some¬ 
times from the attacks of insects AAdiose habits resemble 
those of the eye-spotted Penthina. But, as I haA^e not yet 
seen them in the moth state, I cannot say Avhether they 
are of the same species as the bud-moth above named. 
* Spilonota comitana, Stephens; Pmcilochroma comitana, Curtis; Penthina luscana^ 
Duponchel. 
