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boring in the younger stems which it completely hollows out, killing 

 them. When the plant is in early flower, the young flower heads are 

 often killed and webbed up into a foul mass by this larva. Spins a 

 large webby cocoon on the ground. 



Agathodes designalis Guen. 



Larva. Head round, clypeus high ; brownish orange, bases of antennas and 

 epistoma white, ocelli and ends of antennae black; width 1.7 mm. Body normal, 

 tubercles ia -\- ib, iia + iib and iv -(- v on thorax, iv -|- v on abdomen, as in all the 

 Pyralids here described. Sordid greenish dorsally, more ocherous laterally ; tubercles 

 large, jet black, polished. A pale yellow subdorsal line on joints 3 to 12 broken in 

 the incisures. Cervical shield transparent, densely black spotted ; anal flap sparsely 

 spotted. Thoracic feet black, abdominal ones with hair tubercles of vii only black. 



Food-plant : Erythrina herbacea, making a web among the flowers. 

 Bores a hole in soft wood to pupate. 



Desmia tages Cram. 



Larva. Head rather long, shining yellowish luteous, shading to bright red 

 brown on the apices of the lobes ; paraclypeal pieces reaching vertex but narrow and 

 obscure ; clypeus moderate ; four upper ocelli large and black, almost contiguous ; 

 width 1.5 mm. Body transparent, black from the food showing; cervical shield 

 nearly black, bisected by a pale line. Tubercles large, sordid blackish at the extrem- 

 ities, colorless centrally. Tracheae and excretory tubules white ; spiracles rimmed 

 with pale testaceous ; setae long, pale. Tubercles iv and v united, nearly in line, iv 

 a trace dorsad. 



Food-plant : Psychotria undata. The larva is a leaf roller, rolling 

 up the leaf in spiral to several turns, fastened with stitches on the 

 outside in the manner of a Tortricid. When large, several leaves are 

 involved. 



Lineodes Integra Zell. 



Lai-va. Head with vertex under joint 2, clypeus moderate ; translucent green- 

 ish tinged with brown, shining; width 1.2 mm. Cervical shield transparent with a 

 black fleck on either side before the edge. Body somewhat robust and hunched up, 

 rounded a little at the ends, not tapering ; segments scarcely annulate. Translucent 

 whitish green, dorsal vessel blackish green. Tubercles rather large, elevated but 

 quite transparent ; iv -^ v. Spiracles all colorless ; feet colorless, the tips of thoracic 

 ones dark. Setae short. 



Food-plant : Solaniim radii la, also on the cultivated S. jasminifo- 

 lii/m, to which it was more injurious than to the wild plant. Webs the 

 leaves, biting them off and resting in the withered foliage. 



Lineodes triangulalis M'dschl. 



Larva. Head with the vertex slightly under joint 2, clypeus high ; green, red- 



