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marbled with gray behind the middle, and have a distinct gray spot 
on the tip; they are crossed by two wavy blackish lines, one near the 
middle and the other near the outer margin. These lines are formed 
by little elevated black tufts, and there are also two similar tufts on 
the middle of the wing. The hind wings are dusky brown or light 
brown, with a pale fringe, and are without bands or spots.” 
There are two broods of the caterpillars in a season, the first ap¬ 
pearing as before stated in June, the second in July and August, the 
moths from the last issuing in September. If the insect should be 
found as far south as Southern Illinois, it is probable there would be 
three broods. 
Remedies .—Drenching the vines with strong soap suds has been 
recommended for this insect. In this case cresylic or whale-oil soap 
would probably be more effective. Powdered white hellebore mixed 
with water—an ounce of the powder to a pailful of water—may be 
showered on the vines. By jarring the poles around which the 
vines twine many of the worms will fall to the ground when they 
mav be killed. If this is done twice a dav for a few davs the worms 
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may be destroyed without the use of any chemical. 
Philometra serraticornis, Grote. 
In the early part of the season when the grass has attained six or 
eight inches in height there may be found at its roots hiding among 
the preceding years dead blades, a small gray striped worm that 
feeds a few days longer and then changes to a light ochreous brown 
chrysalis in the merest semblance of a cocoon. This consists of a few 
threads of silk connecting bits of leaves or stalks or any other objects 
that may answer the purpose, in which the chrysalis is suspended, 
the object seeming to be to raise it a little from the ground instead 
of protection. In June these chrysalids produce brownish gray 
moths expanding about an inch when the wings are spread. The 
fore wings are crossed by three transverse brown lines and a central 
brown shade, the outer or subterminal line wavy, the others strongly 
bent outward. The hind wings are less brown and contain only two 
transverse lines. In the males tiie antennae is pectinate and the front 
legs are tufted with long gray hairs. These moths provide for anoth¬ 
er brood of the worms in July, the moths coming out again the fore 
part of August. 
Last summer when grapes were nearly full grown, they w r ere, ?.n 
various parts of Washington county, affected by rot that began in a 
little brown speck, that as it increased in size became flat, partially 
dry, and presented in the centre the appearance of having been stung. 
I gathered a handful of these and put them in a jar with sand in the 
bottom and waited the result, but was a little surprised to find after a 
time a number of the larvae of this insect feeding on the grapes inside 
the jar. These passed through their transformations and produced 
the perfect insects the forepart of August, seeming to be very little 
discommoded by their confinement, and thriving as well upon the 
grapes as did those I had reared the forepart of the season upon the 
grass, grain and weeds I had fed them. Before leaving this subject I 
