March, '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 67 



that I have seen in the Northern States. It occurs on the 

 under sides of the leaves, seventy-five or eighty larvae, pupae 

 and pupa cases being found upon a single lobe of the com- 

 pound leaf. 



Named from the genus of plants upon which it was found. 



From a comparison of the descriptions, actece appears to be 

 allied to aureocincta Ckll. and aninicola Bemis, but I have not 

 examined material of those species. It differs from the former 

 in the markings of the adult, and in the shape of the oper- 

 culum ; it does not have the prong-shaped black markings on 

 the pupa case like amnicola. It is also somewhat larger than 

 either of these species. 



I am indebted to Prof. A. L. Quaiutance of the Bureau of 

 Entomology, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., 

 for examining the specimens and manuscript, and to my 

 assistant, Mr. B. H. Walden, for making the photographs 

 (5 and 6) shown on plate. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE. 



1. Pupa case x 30. 



2. Vasiform orifice x 325. 



3. Margin of pupa case x 400. 



4. Forewing x 46, 



5. Larvae and pupa? on leaf, photographed from dried specimens x 4. 



6. Adults, from photograph x 4. 



Just One Log. 



BY ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSOM. 



It was a very big log, some twelve feet in length and two 

 feet in diameter. It was of gumbo-limbo wood Burseragum- 

 m if era and had evidently been lying where I found it for 

 many months, for the underside w^as deeply imbedded in the 

 powdered disintegrated coral or coral-like rock found along 

 Biscay ne Bay. Every new comer notices the gumbo-limbo on 

 his arrival in southern Florida. Its bark is of a deep brownish 

 red, or mahogany color, and the outermost layer, of very thin 

 delicate tissue, flakes off and hangs in loose ragged strips, 

 making the tree an odd and conspicuous object in the tropical 

 hummock. 



