CHLORIDEA RHEXI^. 199 
deeper towards the hinder margin of the wings; 
antennae also reddish. 
The caterpillar is dull yellowish-green, having a 
narrow white line along the sides, and a yellow one 
a little above it, and there is a small reddish spot 
on each segment between these lines. It eats the 
buds and blossoms of the Bhexia Virginica^ as well 
as those of the tobacco plant, proving often very 
pernicious to the latter by destroying the main shoot. 
The only method employed to get rid of it is to 
throw hot sand or w^ood ashes upon the plants; 
sometimes also the caterpillars are picked off with 
the hand. Abbot found one of the individuals he 
kept enter the ground and spin a web there on the 
25th July, and the fly came out on the 9th August. 
The insect is a native of Georgia, but is not com- 
mon. 
