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cultural Society, is included among those injurious to garden veget¬ 
ables. It is an importation from the old world, that like many others, 
has followed in the wake of civilization to prey upon the food plants 
man has taken with him in his migrations. It has been reported as 
doing great damage to the cabbage crop in various parts of the north¬ 
ern states. Dr. Packard speaks of it as occurring in Massachusetts, a 
similar report comes from Michigan, and there are evidences of its 
occasionally being found in Illinois, though I have met with very few 
of them. 
The larva is a little green worm about a quarter of an inch long, 
that feeds on the under side of the outer leaves. When ready to 
transform, they spin web-like cocoons in the folds and depressions of 
the leaves. The moth, not more than half an inch across the 
expanded wings, has the fore wings pale gray with a white hind mar¬ 
gin. Packard describes these as “Gray, with a conspicious brood, 
longitudinal, white band along the inner edge, and extending to the 
outer third of the wings. This band sends out three teeth towards 
the middle of the wing, the third tooth being at the end of the band. 
There is a row of dark dots along the outer edge of the stripe ; a row 
of blackish dots along a pale shade just outside of the front edge of the 
wing, and two diverging rows of blackish dots diverging from the tip 
or apex of the wing. The fringe is marked with a few dark spots. 
The middle of the wing, next the white band, is darker than the front 
edge, while a faint yellowish shade runs along the middle of the outer 
half of the wings towards the tip, inclosing a few black dots.” 
There are two broods of the worms in a season, one in the middle of 
the summer, and the other late in autumn, when the cabbages are 
heading, and when sufficiently numerous, they riddle the leaves full 
of holes. The first brood feeding on the young cabbages in early sum¬ 
mer may do more mischief than the second brood in autumn, when 
the heads are fully formed. 
Remedies —Plentiful showering with soapsuds or brine has been recom¬ 
mended as the best remedy. In addition to this, the cocoons may be 
picked off, or if the fall brood be somewhat confined to single leaves, 
these may be broken off and the worms and cocoons destroyed. 
PTEROPHORIDiE.—Plume Moths. 
. This family represents a small group of moths of medium or small 
size called Plume Moths, which may be readily known by the fore 
wings being more or less deeply notched or cleft at the end, and the 
hind wings being divided into two or more separate nieces or plumes. 
When at rest these are folded together under the narrow fore wings 
and the whole stand out from the body nearly at right angles, raised 
a little from the horizontal. The larvae have sixteen legs and are 
rather hairy. They form no cocoon but fastening themselves by the 
tail to a leaf or stem, shed their larva skins and appear in the pupa 
state. Some of the pupae are nearly as hairy as the larvae, while oth¬ 
ers are quite naked. Most of them feed in the early summer months, 
