Packard.] 
INSECTS OP THE GARDEN. 
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observed in this country only late in the summer and in Sep¬ 
tember, when the cabbages have headed, yet these worms, as 
Dr. Pitch suggests, probably belong to a second brood. Mr. 
H. T. Stainton, in his excellent “Manual of British But¬ 
terflies and Moths,” states that the moths fly in May and 
August, while the caterpillars appear in June, July, and a 
second brood again in September. Dr. Fitch suspects that 
the first brood of caterpillars may feed on the young cabbage 
plants in early summer, and thus do more mischief than in 
the autumn, when the heads are fully formed. 
The caterpillar is a little pale green worm, with small, 
stiff, dark hairs scattered over the body ; it is a quarter of an 
inch long. When about to transform it spins a beautiful 
open net-work of white silken threads, forming a cocoon 
(Fig. 46*) open one at end; it Fig 46 
is a thirfl of an inch long. 
The moth itself (Fig. 46 a) is 
pale gray, with the head, palpi 
and antennae white, but the lat¬ 
ter are ringed alternately with 
a 
white and gray on the outer Cabbie Web-moth and cocoon. 
half. The rest of the body is gray, except on the under 
side, and on the middle of the thorax, where there is a broad, 
white, longitudinal band, which when the wings are folded is 
continuous with the white band along the inner side of the 
wings. The two front pair of legs are gray, with the tarsal 
joints ringed narrowly with white ; the hind legs are whitish 
and hairy. The fore wings are gray, with a conspicuous, 
broad, longitudinal, white band along the inner edge, and 
extending to the outer third of the wing ; 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 
' *This and figure 44 are from my “Report on the Injurious Insects of 
Massachusetts,” and are kindly loaned by Mr. C. L. Flint, Secretary of the 
Massachusetts Board of Agriculture. 
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