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The patches and fasciae of the preceding species are in slingerlandana very illy 

 defined, and are much more clearly apparent in Fig. 24 than in the actual speci- 

 mens owing to the absence of true color values in photographs. The outer patch 

 is of rather triangular shape, nearly straight on iimer edge and sharply indented 

 above anal angle. The central fascia is nearly of corresponding shape. At the 

 end of cell, below costa, is a flattened ovate patch of light brown and a spot of 

 similar color on dorsum just before middle. The costal spots are not as clearly 

 defined as in any of the preceding species, and are pale brown, each divided 

 (geminated) by a short streak of black. Hind wing: very dark, smoky-black. 

 Expanse 9.5 to 10.5 mm. 



Larva on Etipatorium perfoUahim; 8 to 9 mm.: cylindrical, more robust than 

 viteana or liriodendrana, slightly tapering, olive-green. Head, flattened, chestnut 

 brown, mouth-parts darker brown, ocellic field, lateral dashes and thoracic feet 

 dark brown. Prothoracic shield light chestnut-brown, darker shaded on pos- 

 terior edge. Tubercular plates moderate, nearly concolorous, shining. Anal 

 shield not chitinous. 



First brood not observed. Second brood: larvse, July 6 and 9 (Montclair, N. J.) , 

 in young flower-heads, tunnelling a passage, slightly silk lined. Moths issued 

 Aug. 5 and 7. Third brood in mature flower-heads, tunnelling as before, and feed- 

 ing on seeds and flowers, Sept. 7 to 20. Hibernates as pupae, formed in cases cut 

 out of a leaf same as in preceding species. 



Polychrosis rhoifructana Kearfott. — (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Dec, 1904.) This 

 species is nearest to slingerlandana, as it is much darker and more mottled than 

 the first three species here treated, but its fasciae and spots are much more sharply 

 outlined. Front wing : outer patch, as in slingerlandana, merging into costal spot, 

 but more flattened laterally and more rounded at apex. Central fascia with outer 

 spur broader and more obtuse at its end. Between this central dark fascia and 

 the dark narrow fascia at inner fourth, is a well defined pale brownish-gray fascia, 

 sHghtly darker above tlian below the middle. The ground color of this species 

 is more pronouncedly pale brown and whitish-gray than in any of the four pre- 

 ceding; with the darker olive-green and greenish-black spots and fasciae well 

 defined. A flattened, triangular patch of this ground color lays on the costa 

 between middle and apex and contains the dark costal spots, of which the apical 

 is rounded, the inner one rather large and rectangular, and the two intermediate 

 smaller and triangular. Hind wing: pale gray, darker at apex and outer margin. 

 Expanse 10.5 to 11.5 mm. 



I have not bred this species. It has been bred in the insectary, Wooster, Ohio, 

 from seed racemes of sumac; all of the specimens observed were forced, dates 

 of emergence being Dec. 28 to Mar. 6. In the U. S. National Museum are some 

 specimens that I refer to this species with considerable doubt; Prof. Riley's 

 unpublished notes state that they were "Sumac leaf-rollers." The specimens 

 look much like viteana, and I am inclined to think sumac and grape larvae have 

 been mixed, especially as the well-known Sumac leaf-roller is an entirely different 

 species and genus of Tortricid, namely Episimus argutanus Clem. 



Notes on the Red-Banded Leaf-Roller {Eulia triferana Walk.) that Some- 

 times Works with the Grape-Berry Moth 

 While observing the work of the spring brood of the grape-berry moth cater- 

 pillars on the clusters of blossoms and recently-set fruits in June,- a larger green 

 caterpillar was quite often found at the same destructive work. The fuU-grown 

 caterpillar is shown in Fig. 25. It is about the color of the small green grapes 



