. The American entomologist and botanist. alsh, andreceived this reply: Your Raspberry Moth isAplodes rubivora of the Junior Editor, first de-scribed in his Missouri Report. Down went all my air-castles of being im-mortalized in science with this delicate littlecreature I I now had the Verbena Moth (Fig. 126, 5) tobuild my hopes [Fig. 126] upon. so interestingas the other, stillit was very prettj;and as my interestin the Raspberry ^Moth had greatlysubsided, since Ifound that it hada name, and morethana local habi-tation, so myregard for theVerbena Moth asgreatly increased,notwiths
. The American entomologist and botanist. alsh, andreceived this reply: Your Raspberry Moth isAplodes rubivora of the Junior Editor, first de-scribed in his Missouri Report. Down went all my air-castles of being im-mortalized in science with this delicate littlecreature I I now had the Verbena Moth (Fig. 126, 5) tobuild my hopes [Fig. 126] upon. so interestingas the other, stillit was very prettj;and as my interestin the Raspberry ^Moth had greatlysubsided, since Ifound that it hada name, and morethana local habi-tation, so myregard for theVerbena Moth asgreatly increased,notwithstandingit was such a ter-rible nuisance inthe larva state. Itseemed determin-ed not to let ushave verbena early in the season I iirst noticed its larvse were so small, and so near the colorof the calyx of the flower, that it was almost im-possible to catch the perpetrator until the mis-chief was done. They were hid away amongthe clusters of buds, and ate through the lowerpart of the calyx, completely destroying the. perfecttlolois—(2 and 3) dirty flesh-color, iu-cliiiiug to gi-een: (5) silvery-grayand brown. flowers. At first they seemed to be mostly con-fined to the white and light-colored varieties ofverbena, but later in the season they attackedall colors indiscriminately. I also noticed that the pupse were affected bylamp-light, a peculiarity that I had never ob-served in any other insect. One evening Ibrought several clusters of verbena buds, thatwere badly mutilated by these little pests, to thelight of a lamp, which afiected the pupae so muchthat they worked and wriggled themselves en-tirely out of their cocoons; and I waited in vainto see them give forth the perfect insect, which,however, did not issue until two or three daysafter this. After satisfying myself that this insect wasnot described in any work on the Lepidoptera,I sent it to Mr. Walsh, and he inclined to believethat it was a new and undescribed species; butadded, he would let me know
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