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about the middle of June. There is but one generation a year. 

 In the vicinity of Cincinnati I have found the galls only on 

 Vitis cordifolia. In other localities it occurs on other species 

 of grape ; specimens of the work on a cultivated variety from 

 Boston were submitted to me for identification some years ago 

 by Mr. J. L. King, at that time on the staff of the Ohio Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station. In a letter accompanying the 

 specimens he wrote that it has also been observed in the grape 

 belt in northern Ohio. 



Argyresthia undulatella Chambers. 



Argyrcsthia uiidulatcHa Chambers, Can. Ent., VI, 10, 1874: Busck, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., XXXII, 22, 1907. 



The larvae mine in the inner living bark of the main trunk 

 and branches of the red elm (Uliiius fnh'a-}, hollowing out an 

 elongate cavity. In early spring the presence of the larvae is 

 shown by the brownish frass which is pushed to the outside. 

 Early in April, in a crevice of the bark, it spins its cocoon, con- 

 sisting of an inner spindle-shaped cocoon of very fine soft silk, 

 covered on the outer side with a coarse web of irregular mesh. 

 The cocoons are often found on the trunks in great numbers. 



Coleophora coenosipennella Clemens. 



Coleophora coenosipennella Clemens; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 5. I860; Tin. No. Am., 88, 1872. 



The type of this species is not now in existence ; but speci- 

 mens of a species feeding on seeds of Stcllaria pub era (great 

 chick weed) agree so closely with Clemens' description of that 

 species that I have no hesitation in determining them as that 

 species. There is, however, considerable variation in ground 

 color; the color ranges from very pale yellow to brownish. 

 In the palest specimens, the white streaks are broader than the 

 intervening streaks of ground color; in the darker specimens 

 the reverse is the case, and the ground color almost obliterates 

 the short oblique white streaks between the terminal portions 

 of the costal and distal streaks. The basal segment of the 

 antennae and also two or three succeeding segments are swol- 

 len with closely appressed scales. The wing expanse is 11.5 

 12 mm. 



Specimens determined as this species have been placed in 



