322 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW JERSEY. 



P. brassicse, Riley. 



Sometimes quite injurious to Cabbages, in the larva state. 

 P. mortuorum, Gn. 



Rare. Taken near Newark. 

 P. simplex, Gn. 



Newark, in October — Seib. Caldwell, rare — Crane. 



PLAGIOMIMICUS, Grt. 

 P. pitychromus, Grt. 



SOHINIA, Hub. 

 S. trifascia, Hiib. 



Caldwell, rare — Crane. 



S. nundina, Dru. 



Taken on Spircea, near Jamesburg. Also on the Newark list. 



S. spinosae, Gn. 



Sandy Hook — BeutenmuUer. 



ANTHCEOIA, Gn. 



A. rivulosa, Gn. 



A. lynx, Gn. 



I have seen specimens in collections. One near Newark. 



RHODOPHORA, Gn. 

 R. fiorida, Gn. 



The larva feeds in the buds and seed capsules of CEkothera. 



PYRRHIA, Hub. 

 P. umbra, Hiib. 



Caldwell, rare — Crane. Newark, in June — Seib. 



DERRIMA, Walk. 

 D. henrietta, Grt. 



HBLIOTHIS, Hiib. 

 H. armiger, Hiib. 



The larva is the cotton-boll worm of the South, the corn worm 



of the North, and it varies its diet on occasions by eating into 



Tomatoes. 



