THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 3 



but they appear to differ very much from our species. D. pastinacella 

 resembles ours id color., but the description does not otherwise tally; its 

 food-plant, judging from the specific name, is the same, though no account 

 is given of the larva in any books that we have access to. As then the 

 ravager of our parsnips is in all probability a native and not an imported 

 insect, affecting some wild plant of the same character, we may call it from 

 the name of this Province, Depressaria Ont arietta. 



The following is a description of the imago : — 



Depressaria Ontariella, n. sp. — Alar exp. 0*90 inches; length of body 0- 

 40 inch; wings with a satiny lustre. Primaries greyish fuscous, varied with 

 black scales and blotches ; a small black spot at the base of the costa ; basal 

 third irregularly marked with black spots and blotches, and with a few 

 whitish spots — these vary very much in different specimens ; termination of 

 the disk with a whitish spot, partially margined with black : a very much 

 curved transverse fascia composed of parallel longitudinal black streaks, pro- 

 ceeding from the costa and terminating before the hind margin ; then a 

 somewhat conspicuous outwardly angulated narrow dusky white fascia, form- 

 ing a more or less distinct V across the wing ; and next an indistinct dusky 

 fascia, a narrow subterminal line, and a terminal row of deep black points. 

 Fringe fuscous, broadly edged with whitish. 



Secondaries semi-transparent, whitish, darker towards apex and exterior 

 margin ; nervures distinctly marked with dusky scales. Fringe long and 

 dusky, longer and much paler towards the anal angle. 



Under side of primaries dusky, without any markings, except a terminal 

 rim of black points ; secondaries much paler, with black points towards the 

 apex on the exterior margin. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen above fuscous; labial palpi fuscous above, 

 brush of second joint black beneath, third joint black tipped with white ; 

 abdomen with a row of black spots along each side. 



These moths, or possibly a late brood, though we do not see what a later 

 brood would have to feed upon, hybernate and may often be seen flitting 

 about rooms and emerging from behind curtains even in the. depth of winter. 

 They are usually mistaken for clothes-moths, and indeed we always hitherto 

 regarded them as such ourselves, and were immensely surprised when we 

 found them to be the product of our parsnip worms. 



As some of our horticultural readers may be troubled with a «super-abund- 

 ance of this insect, and be desirous of learning a mode of getting rid of it, 

 we may suggest a remedy. As soon as the young caterpillars appear upon 

 the flowers, dust the umbels well over with powdered white hellebore, and 

 repeat the operation occasionally, as all the larvae do not appear at once. 



