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band, faint on segments two and three, conspicuous on four and 
eleven, and uniform in the middle of each of the other segments In 
the middle segments of the body each orange band contains eight 
black elevated spots, each spot giving rise to a white hair. These spots 
are arranged four on each side, as follows : The* upper one on the an¬ 
terior porder of the orange band; the second on its posterior border* 
the third just above its spiracles, on its anterior border,—each of the 
three interrupting one of the transverse black lines,—and the fourth 
which is smaller, just behind the spiracles. The venter is black ? 
slightly variegated with bluish white, and with the orange band ex¬ 
tending on the legless segments. The legs are black, and the false 
legs have two black spots on an orange ground, at their outer base • 
but the characteristic feature which distinguishes it from the other 
two species (the Wood-nymphs) is a lateral, white, wavy band—obso¬ 
lete on the thoracic segments, and most conspicuous on ten and 
eleven—running just below the spiracles and interrupted by the trans¬ 
verse orange band.” 
The change to a chrysalis takes place in a slight cocoon, just below 
the surface of the ground, and the moth that is soon after produced is 
of a deep blue black, each fore wing marked in the middle by two 
lighu yellow spots, and each hind wing bv two white ones ' The 
shanks are orange, and the shoulder tufts are'yellow. 
Remedies The fact that this and the following species of grane- 
eattng insects are so widely distributed and yet so little damage is 
done by them, even where grapes are extensively raised, is evidence 
that but little need be done to prevent their attacks, as their parasitic 
oes are generally sufficient to keep them in check. As they all have 
the boring habit when about to undergo their transformations, broken 
lorn-cobs or pieces of wood scattered about the base of the vines will 
‘rT t ? allur ? the “l T .hese can, in the fall, be gathered and 
ourned. Cleanliness in cultivation is a general antidote for these as 
well as many other kinds of insect foes. 
Psychomorpha epimenis, Drury— 1 The Grape-vine Bpimenis. 
The caterpillar of this moth bears so close a resemblance to that of 
nluTr y " ood-nymph that they can scarcely, if at all, be distin- 
ion nftw™ T h ° the V h fiV e > f ° r a11 Poetical purposes, the descrip- 
fon of that will answer for this. It works, as Prof. Rilev says, “mostly 
nthe spring, m the terminal buds, drawing the leaves together by a 
ew weak silken threads. It always lies hidden within a sort of hollow 
, made of . leaves th « s drawn together. It quits feeding by the end of 
day bores into wood or other sufficiently soft substance at hand 
teatly covering up its retreat, and remains hidden as a chrysalis till 
he next spring. . The moth that issues is velvety black, the fore 
nogs sprinkled with light blue scales, forming a narrow band near 
hi^rhTnH arg n n, r d i mai : ked bey0nd * he middle a lar S e yellowish 
hlte ba ^ d - On the hind wings, in the same place, is a large dark 
range-red band The band on the fore wing is indented in the mid¬ 
le* Expands a little over an inch. 
Remedies —See the preceding. 
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