QUO 



->n.) 



very minutely shagreened all over. On each segment, a prominent, pointed, 

 straight projection on each side of the dorsum, and several minor warts and 

 prickles below. Two very slightly raised, longitudinal, lighter lines along the 

 dorsum, between the prominent prickles. Ten legs. Average length, 0.80 

 inch. It has the peculiar faculty of thoroughly disguising itself with pieces of 

 dried berry, seed, pollen, and other debris of the fruit, which it- sticks to a series 

 of prickles with which it is furnished. Add to this disguise the habit which 

 it has of looping itself into a small ball, and it almost defies detection. It is 

 most numerous (in Illinois) during the months of June and July, the moth 

 appearing July 9. It feeds upon the fruit of the raspberry." — Riley. 



Synchloea rubrifrontaria Packard. 



Synchlora rubrifrontaria Pack., Fifth Rep. Peab. Acad. Sc, 75,1873. 



1 $ and 3 9 . — Closely resembling 8. rubivoraria, but differing in the 

 front and palpi being reddish, as also the fore tibiae; the fore wings are a 

 little more prolonged toward the apex, but the markings and coloration 

 of the wings and body are almost identical, except that the basal line on the 

 hind wings is much less curved than in the other species, and the lines 

 generally are a little less curved, but about the same distance apart. 



Length of body, $ 0.35-0.38 ; length of fore wing, S 0.43-0.50 ; ex- 

 panse of wings, 0.85-1.05 inches. 



West Farms, N. Y. (Angus); Brooklyn, N. Y. (Graef) ; Central Mis- 

 souri, August (Riley). 



This species differs from the more abundant 8. rubivoraria in the front 



of the head being reddish and the lines more distinctly scalloped and 



inclined to be heavier. 



Desideratum. 



Synchlora liquoraria Gruen., Phal., i, 375, 1857. — '-23 mm . Ailes d'un vert 

 pomme, a frange concolore a la base, blanchatre a, l'extre'mite, prece'dee 

 seulement de petits points blanc place's an bout des nervures. Les deux 

 lignes communes, blanches, bien nettes, la premiere onde'e, la seconde dentee. 

 Un trait cellulaire pen visible. Superieures avec la cote blanche, liscree. 

 interieurement de rose carne*. Dessous d'un blanc-verdatre. Les supe- 

 rieures plus vertes, avec la cote plus largement rose qu'en dessus. Front 

 d'un carne obscur. Palpes Wanes, teintes de rose. Abdomen blanc, a dos 

 vert, divise par unc ligne media nc blanche. 



■'California Une <?. Coll. Bdv." 



