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are to furnish food for the larvae. The moth is in color a mouse gray, 
with the fore wings being finely sprinkled with yellow scales, and 
having an arcuated pale line running across the outer third. 
Remedies —To prevent future crops being destroyed, the stubble ol 
infected plants may be gathered and burned while the worms are yet 
in them, or before the moths emerge. AVe may conclude, from such 
experience as is given in the above extracts from letters, that land 
that is kept clean will be comparatively free from these insects. A 
few choice plants in the garden or flower garden, that show by their 
wilting the presence of this or some other stalk borer, may be saved 
by finding the locality of the insect in the stalk and carefully cutting 
it out. 
Spec. Char. Moth .—Expanse of wings from 1.10 to 1.50 inches. Gen¬ 
eral color of the body mouse gray, the fore wings with a very light 
lilac tinge and finely sprinkled over with bright yellow scales, ex¬ 
cept the subterminal space, which is free from yellow scales, except 
a few at the hind margin; the most notable feature being this lighter 
space edged internally by the yellow t. p. line, which is scarcely wavy. 
The other lines indistinct, unless it be the subterminal, which is in¬ 
dicated by a series of yellow dots, with the darker shading that usually 
accompanies this line. The reniform and orbicular scarcely darker 
than the space surrounding, the second with another spot below it; 
thorax with prominent anterior and posterior dorsal tufts; basal 
part of the abdomen and anal extremity of the male slightly tufted. 
Gortyna nebris, Guen. 
The only difference between this species and the nitela is in this: 
the wings are usually a little lighter, and the reniform and orbicular, 
with sometimes the spot below the orbicular contain white or yellow¬ 
ish white spots. The habits and coloration of the larvae are similar, 
but the chrysalis is formed in the ground. 
Achatodes ze je, Harris.—The Spindle-worm Moth. 
This species, first described by Dr. Harris, has about the same range 
as the more common Gortynas , and as the caterpillar has a similar 
habit it is quite .probable that a portion of the destruction to corn 
attributed to the Stalk Borer is due to this insect. Like the Stalk 
Borer the Spindle-worm enters the stalk through a small hole 'while 
the corn is small, and by the time the tassel should appear the with¬ 
ering leaves show the mischief that is being done inside the stalk. 
The caterpillar is, when full grown, an inch or more in length and 
of the “ thickness of a goose quill,” of a yellowfish color, with the 
head, the top of the first and last segments black, with a double row 
across each of the other segments of black piliferous spots. The 
chrysalis is formed in the stalk in the cavit} 7- the worm has eaten out. 
The moth that issues from it in August has gray fore wings with 
