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base of each pro-leg. Head of the same general color as the body, mot- 

 tled with brown. Cervical shield dark brown, small. Piliferous spots 

 small, brown. 



Two of these were found, one of which died from the effects of para- 

 sites. The other, found March 8th, changed to a chrysalis March 21st, 

 on the top of the dirt in its box, under some dry grass, without a cocoon. 

 The moth emerged April iSth. They were taken in situations indicating 

 that grass constituted their food, and ate only that while in confinement. 



Mr. Caulfield has given us a description of this larva in Vol. 6, page 

 132 of the Can. Ent., but as my specimens varied some from his, I 

 thought it well to give what I have above. 



ON THE EARLY STAGES OF GRACILARIA 

 STIGMATELLA, Fabr. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KY. 



As elsewhere stated, the species formerly described by me as Graci- 

 laria piirpuriella is G. stigmatelia Fabr. In the Natural History of the 

 Tineina, vol. viii., p. 35, Mr. Stainton gives the following account of it: 

 " The larva feeds in and upon willows, sallows and poplars. On the 

 white poplar I have had an opportunity of observing the mine of the 

 young larva, which is a small blotch not very unlike the mine of a Lithocol- 

 letis larva. (Italics my own.) As soon as it quits this mine, which it 

 does at an early period of life, it rolls up a piece of the tip or edge of 

 the leaf in a conical form, and it feeds on the interior of this cone, eating 

 half through the substance of the leaf; as one of the cones does not 

 afford sufficient sustenance for the larva during its whole existence, it treats 

 in succession several leaves in this fashion, and the deserted cones always 

 contain a considerable amount of excrement. On the white poplar the 

 conical form of the habitation is not so marked, and sometimes it rolls 

 over a piece of the edge of the leaf When the larva is quite full fed it 

 turns down a corner of a leaf, or else fixes itself straight over the midrib, 

 and there spins its tough but glossy-looking cocoon, from which in a feiv 

 weeks (italics mine) the perfect insect emerges." This is the most com- 

 plete account of the larva of this species that I have seen ; and 1 quote 



