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LEPIDOPTEEA. 
of several European Tortrices or turpentine-moths, that 
thus injure pines and firs, is given in Kollar’s Treatise, 
-wherein we are advised to search for the lumps of turpen- 
tine in the autumn, and destroy the caterpillars under 
them, or to cut off the injured shoots and burn them 
with 1 their inhabitants. This advice it may he proper for 
us to follow, although it is not yet certain that our turpen- 
tine-moths are actually the same as those of Europe. 
Among the insects that have been brought to America 
with other productions of Europe may be mentioned the 
apple-worm, as it is here called, which has become natu- 
ralized wherever the apple-tree has been introduced. This 
mischievous creature has sometimes been mistaken for the 
plum-weevil ( Rhynchcenus ( Conotraclielus ) Nenuphar), de- 
scribed in another part* of this treatise; but it may he 
easily distinguished therefrom by its shape, its habits, and 
its transformations. Although the plum-weevil prefers stone 
fruit, it is sometimes found in apples also ; on the other 
hand, the apple-worm has never been found here in plums. 
It is not a grub, but a true caterpillar, belonging to the 
Tortrix tribe, and in due time is changed to 
a moth, called Carpocapsa Pomonella (Fig. 
239), f the codling-moth, or fruit-moth of 
the apple. An anonymous writer, in the 
“Entomological Magazine”^; of London, has 
well remarked that this moth “ is the most beautiful of the 
Fig. 239 
beautiful tribe to which it belongs ; yet, from its habits not 
being known, it is seldom seen in the moth state ; and the 
apple-grower knows no more than the man in the moon to 
what cause he is indebted for his basketfuls of worm-eaten 
windfalls in the stillest weather.” 
* Pago 76. 
t Tinea Pomonella , L. ; Pyralis Pomona , F. If the modern name of the genus 
be correct, it was probably formed from two Greek words signifying to devour 
fruit. Terhaps the name should have been Curpocampa, that is, in English, fruit- 
caterpillar. 
t Vol. I. p. 144. 
