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285. CAMPTOXOITS 

 Leaf-roller. 



CAKOLINENSIS (Gerstjecker ) , 1860, 27G. Carolina 



Size medium; form rather slender, subcylindrical. Reddish-brown 

 above, yellowish-white beneath; face and all the tibia? and tarsi yellowish; 



femora, especially 

 the middle and hind 

 pair, mottled with 

 dark brown; a trans- 

 verse bar of the same 

 color on the three 

 posterior dorsal seg- 

 ments of abdomen. 

 Structural characters 



Fig. 200. Female. X 2 - (Original.) as given above. 



Length of body, $, 1314, $, 1215; of pronotum, $ , 3, $,4; of hind fe- 

 mora. and $, 7.5 8; of ovipositor, 8 9 mrn. (Fig. 200.) 



Marion. 1'arke, Yigo, Lawrence and Crawford counties, Ind. ; 

 adults Sept. 9 Oct. 11; nymphs, July 1522. Probably occurs 

 sparingly on oak shrubs and trees throughout southern Indiana. 

 Only four adults and the same number of nymphs have been seen 

 l>y me. The nymphs were beaten from oak shrubs. While eating 

 lunch beneath a sycamore tree in Vigo County, Sept. 25, 1917, a 

 male fell from the tree onto my neck; the others were found on 

 the ground beneath oak trees. 



Filler in ixi;4 redescribed the species as Cai/>toitotus sciidderi, 

 his types being from near Baltimore, where, he says, it appears 

 ii the larval state as early as the first of August and reaches ma- 

 turity the latter part of September. It is there found upon oak 

 trees, where it is said to spend the daytime curled up in the leaves. 



Caudell (1904e) and McAtee (1908) have each given a most 

 interesting account of the leaf rolling habits of this Caiuptonotu*. 

 The former first found the nymphs in rolled papaw leaves near 

 Washington in July. Later he placed one in a glass tube with 

 some willow leaves covered with plant lice. On the next day he 

 found that it had constructed for itself a pocket in one of the 

 leaves. This was made: 



"By cutting the leaf through on each side to the midrib and at right an- 

 gles to it and again one-third of an inch farther along the midrib, this time 

 the incision being formed at an angle with it. The flaps thus formed on 

 either side were then folded together and their edges fastened together with 

 silk-like strands, and I have subsequently seen cases with one end com- 

 pletely closed by a solid mat of this silk. The manner of constructing the 

 pockets or rolls is not uniform. In some cases the incisions are made near 

 the apex of the leaf and then only the two basal cuts are made, the tip of the 



