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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 wings are of the same color 
at each end, and grayish white in the middle, mottled with 
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 being longer 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 
wings are dusky brown. This moth expands from one half 
to six tenths of an inch. It may be called Penthina oculana, 
the eye-spotted Penthina. My attention was called to the 
depredations of this bud-motli, and of the preceding species, 
by John Owen, Esq., of Cambridge, by whom the moths 
were raised from the caterpillars, and presented to me. It 
is difficult at first to conceive how 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, whereby the opening foliage is checked 
in its growth or nipped in the bud. To pull off and crush 
the withered clusters of leaves containing the caterpillars or 
the chrysalids, is the only remedy that occurs to me. It 
were to be wished that some better way of putting a stop 
to the ravages of the leaf-rollers and bud-moths that infest 
many of our fruit-trees and flowering shrubs could be dis- 
covered. 
Apricot, peach, and plum trees, when trained against 
walls in the open air, are said to suffer very much some- 
times from the attacks of insects whose habits resemble 
those of the eye-spotted Penthina. But, as I have not yet 
seen them in the moth state, I cannot say whether they 
are of the same species as the bud-moth above named. 
* Spilonota comitana , Stephens ; Pcecilochroma comitana , Curtis ; Penthina luscana , 
Duponchel. 
