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cuts off at the middle and fastens to the petiole by silky web a 

 small opening leaf at the end of a branch. It has the habit of eat 

 ing out the buds. 



Head rounded, ochraceous tinted, sordid; vertex under joint 2; width 

 .8 mm. Body green, thorax shaded with vinous; a dull brown blotched 

 dorsal stripe on joints n to 13, widening behind. Another much larger 

 larva but with the head the same size had eaten the bud and mined some 

 distance into the stem. -Body robust, large for the head, thick centrally 

 and tapering towards the ends. Anterior end, joints 2 to 5, heavily shaded 

 with vinous, fainter posteriorly, with faint dorsal and lateral continua 

 tions. The extent of this mark is variable. Tubercles large, green, trans 

 parent, the hair tubercles brown ; i and ii not quite in line, iv and v united ; 

 on thorax ia-f-ib. iia-f-iib, iv-{-v, normal. Segments folded posteriorly, 

 obscurely 2-annulate. Feet normal, slender. Setae rather long, brown, 

 especially at the ends. Shields weakly cornified, greenish like the tu 

 bercles. No lateral stripe. 



Pyrausta tyralis Guen. Several examples at light. Some 

 are of a suffused form with the yellow lines on both wings suf 

 fused with vinous and almost obliterated. 



Hellula undalis Fabr. Several specimens at light and flying 

 in grassy places. 



Terasia meticulosalis Guen. The larva bores in young stems 

 of Erythrina herbacea, often destroying a majority of the flower 

 clusters and rendering the plants unsightly. (See Jour. N. Y. 

 Ent. Soc., March, 1901.) 



Agathodes designalis Guen. On the same plant with the pre 

 ceding, but not a borer ; making a web among the flowers. (See 

 Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., March, 1901.) 



Nomophila noctuella Schiff. A specimen flying in the woods. 



Lineodes Integra Zell. Bred from larva? on Solanum radula 

 and S. jasmini folium. (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., March, 1901.) 



Lineodes contortalis Guen. Two specimens at light. 



Lineodes triangulalis Moschl. Bred from larvaa on Cap 

 sicum frutescens. (See Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., March, 1901.) 



Galasa rubidana Walk. At light. 



Hydrocampa obliteralis Walk. Two specimens at light. 



Hydroca-vpa allionealis Walk. Commonly at light. 



Nymphula cannalis Quaint. Leaf rollers on Canna Jlaccida, 

 common. The larva has been quite fully described by Quaintance 

 (Fl. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bull. No. 45, page 71 , 1898.) I add my notes : 



Head small for the large body, bilobed, clypeus high, reaching nearly to 

 vertex; pale luteous, mouth brownish, ocelli black; width 1.3 mm. Body 

 cylindrical, tapering at both ends, incisures moderate, folded. Shields 

 and tubercles transparent, faintly testaceous tinged at the ends. Body 

 transparent, a little milky, food dark green. Cervical shield with black 

 setae and little brown punctures in a curved row each side of the middle; 



