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EYE-SPOTTED BUD MOTH. 
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This subject is strongly drawn attention to by Dr. Lintner in bis 
first ‘Annual Report ’ (p. 88), and the following special observation of 
its use is quoted in a note on the same page:—■“ The following active 
measures against this pest were employed in the extensive orchard of 
Mr. Chapin in East Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York, of one 
hundred and twenty acres:—The Canker-worm commenced its inroads, 
and was worst last year on the interior trees. Mr. Chapin showered 
them with a mixture of Paris-green and water, which brought them 
dead to the ground in a few hours. The water was drawn in a box 
holding over two hundred gallons, in which was mixed 2J lbs. of Paris- 
green. A forcing-pump and hose threw a stream high above each tree , 
where it broke into a spray, and falling sprinkled every parti' 1 
The Eye-spotted Bud Moth; Red Bud Caterpillar, Hedya 
ocellana, Fab. ; Tmetocera ocellana, Schiff. Also Pith Moth, 
Laverna atra, Haw, 
Tmetocera ocellana. 
Eye-spotted Bud Motli, and caterpillar.* 
The Bud and Pith Moths have not been previously reported to me, 
but either kind is able to cause a good deal of injury, and when, as in 
the case noted below, both kinds are present together, the attack is 
very injurious. 
Early in the summer of 1889, Mr. Oliver E. Janson, F.E.S. (of 
22, Perth Road, London, N.), mentioned to me that harm was being 
caused to Apple-trees in his immediate neighbourhood by attack of 
caterpillars, and of these the first that developed to moths proved to be 
of the “Red Bud Caterpillars,” now known as the Tmetocera ocellana; 
but later on, the other kind, that is, the Pith Moths, also appeared, 
and in this case I have the advantage of identification of the double 
attack from such a well-skilled entomologist as Mr. Janson. I give 
his description of the injury observed, and afterwards a short history 
of the two species of moths. Mr. Janson favoured me in September 
with the following observations :— 
“ Early in May my attention was called to the unhealthy appearance 
of many Apple-trees in orchards and gardens in the neighbourhood of 
Hornsey, and as I afterwards noticed that some dwarf Apple-trees in a 
* The above very pretty figure is copied, with thanks, from that given in 
‘ Insects Injurious to Fruit,’ by Prof. W. Saunders, Director-General of the Experi¬ 
mental Farm Station, Canada, 
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