5H REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



MEGALOPYGE Hbn. 



M. crispata Pack. Local throughout the State, VI-VIII. Larva on most 

 orchard and small fruits and on many other trees and shrubs, but 

 never abundant enough to be harmful. 



Family PYROMORPHID^E. 



Small, black or smoky-winged moths, 

 nearly always with a red collar. The 

 species are slight, rather frail in ap- 

 pearance, with two inner veins on 

 primaries and three on secondaries. 

 The antennae of the male are pec- 

 tinated. 



ACOLOITHUS Clem. 

 A. falsarius Clem. Morris Plains 



Fig. 216. Harrisina americana: a, 



larva; b, pupa; c, cocoon; d, e, 



moths, wings closed and open. 



(Dyar) ; Woodbridge VI, 17, lona 



V, 26, Laurel Springs V, 23 (Dke) ; 

 Anglesea V (div). Adult on 



flowers of beach-plum and wild cherry in May and June; larva on 

 grape and Virginia creeper. 



PYROMORPHA H. S. 



P. dimidiata H. S. Plainfield VII (Bz) ; Staten Island VI (Bs); New 

 Brunswick (Coll); Woodbury VI, 17, Wenonah VI, lona V, 24, DaCosta 



VI, Manumuskin VI (Dke); Lahaway VI (Sm); never common. The 

 larva feeds on dead oak leaves. 



HARRISINA Pack. 



H. americana Harr. Locally 

 common everywhere V- 

 VIII, and sometimes, as 

 in the Egg Harbor dis- 

 trict, injurious to certain 

 varieties of grape. The 

 yellow, black-dotted lar- 

 vae feed in company 

 throughout most of their 

 life, and are easily de- 

 stroyed by hand-picking 

 or the use of arsenate of 

 lead. 



Fig. 217. Grape leaf with larvx of Harrisitu 

 americana feeding in characteristic way. 



