. The American entomologist and botanist. withone of them inside it, than we have to eat a cherrywith a Curculio larva inside it. And yet those that weIoinid in strawberries were as long as those thatyour neighbors met with in the same situation,namely, one inch. Caterpillar of Cecropia Moth—.1. Ji. Lowman,Klrl-uDOil, Mo.—The gigantic green caterpillar sent byyou, was the larva of the Cecropia Moth {Atlacus Ce-cropia, Linn.). Seepage 20 of last number under thesame head. 60 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. ., Cabbage Worms—IFm. C. Holmes, Plattebiir<], :;plie green worm -which lias been destr
. The American entomologist and botanist. withone of them inside it, than we have to eat a cherrywith a Curculio larva inside it. And yet those that weIoinid in strawberries were as long as those thatyour neighbors met with in the same situation,namely, one inch. Caterpillar of Cecropia Moth—.1. Ji. Lowman,Klrl-uDOil, Mo.—The gigantic green caterpillar sent byyou, was the larva of the Cecropia Moth {Atlacus Ce-cropia, Linn.). Seepage 20 of last number under thesame head. 60 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. ., Cabbage Worms—IFm. C. Holmes, Plattebiir<], :;plie green worm -which lias been destroying-the cab-bages in your neighborhood, is in all probability thelarva of the Southern Cabbage butterfly {Pieris proto-Jice, Boisd.) At least we know that this is the mostcommon insect found on the cabbage in your locality;but as you describe it simply as a green worm, wecannot decidepositi\cly,because there arc several otherworms of a green color which also attack that Figure 37 a, we represent the larsa of tlie South-. Colui-s—(a) Greenish-blue, yellow and black; (ft) light bluish-gray. ern Cabbage butterfly; at J the chrysalis, and at Fig-ure 38 the $ butterfly. The (^ remarkablyfrom the § , and in our next number we shall presentIFiR. sn.:
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