. The American entomologist and botanist. spot onthe front wings, and each of the wings tinged withpurple and crossed near the tip by a purplish line, whichmoth had deposited a large number of eggs on one ofthe raspberry leaves, was not, as you inferred, theparent of the borer. It is the Senatorial Dryocampa(Dryocampa senatoria, Fabr.) The young worms hatch-ing from those eggs would have fed upon the leaves,though the more common food-plant of the species isOak. Cocoon of Horn-liugr—^. B. McClutchen, Lafay-ette, ffa.—The egg-shaped cocoon formed of excrementand rotten wood glued together, cont
. The American entomologist and botanist. spot onthe front wings, and each of the wings tinged withpurple and crossed near the tip by a purplish line, whichmoth had deposited a large number of eggs on one ofthe raspberry leaves, was not, as you inferred, theparent of the borer. It is the Senatorial Dryocampa(Dryocampa senatoria, Fabr.) The young worms hatch-ing from those eggs would have fed upon the leaves,though the more common food-plant of the species isOak. Cocoon of Horn-liugr—^. B. McClutchen, Lafay-ette, ffa.—The egg-shaped cocoon formed of excrementand rotten wood glued together, contained the large?\vhite larva of some Horn-bug, probably Lucanus dama,Fabr.] Insects named. —J. E. ifuTileman, Woodlmrn,iZZs. —The moth, with the front wings variegatedwith light and dark brown with a conspicuousdark zigzag line running across the outer third, andwith the hind wings of alustrous oopperyreddish brown,is the Pyramidal Amphipyra {Ampliipyra pyramidoides,Giien). You say you bred it from agrape^eedinglarva [Fig. 230. :ht and dark Brown. like the one illustrated on (Fig. 163). We havealso the present summer bred the same species of mothfrom a similar larva feeding on Ked Bud, and havefound the larva on the Poplar, which makes threedistinct plants that it is known to attack. The specificname of the moth probably refers to the pyramidalhump on the 11th segment of the larva. You say you recoUect a similar larva in Europe on apricots, prunetrees, etc., producing an analogous moth. Not at allunlikely, for there is a very similar worm common tothe whole of Europe, and which feeds on Oak, Willowand Elm, as well as on fruit trees, and produces a>ery closely allied moth, the Amphypyra pyramidea ofLinnffius. The other moth of which you senda pencil sketch, and which is of a uniform deepbrown, with two oblique white lines running—the innerline entirely, and the outer one but partially—acrossthe fore wings, is Agnomonia anilis of Drury, who statesthat the
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