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PLATYNOTA FLAVEDANA CLEMENS 



Platynota Jlavedana Clemens, 1861, in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., i860, p. 348. 

 Platynota flavedana Dyar, 1903, List North Amer. Lep., no. 5382. 



One specimen reared by Diven (May 23, 191 9) from cotton leaves 

 collected at Brownsville, Tex., May 7, 191 9. 

 The larva was not noted. 

 The pupa is strikingly like that of Platynota rostrana Walker. 



AMORBIA EMIGRATELLA BUSCK 

 (PL. 109, F) 



Amorbia emigratclla Busck, 1910, in Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, v. 11, p. 



201-202. 

 Amorbia emigratella Walsingham, 1913, in Biol. Centr.-Amer., Lep. Heter., v. 4, 



p. 219. 



Two moths reared from cotton May 19 and 24, 1919 (E.'L. Diven) in 

 same material infested by Platynota flavedana, collected at Brownsville, 

 Tex., May 7, 191 9. The pupa has a conspicuous mid-dorsal, cuplike, 

 circular invagination near the anterior margins of the first seven ab- 

 dominal segments, the anterior dorsal margins themselves being strongly 

 chitinized and folded back into a projecting ridge; otherwise as in P. 

 rostrana. 



The larva was not noted. 



FAMILY OLETHREUTIDAE 

 CROCIDOSEMA PLEBEIANA ZELLER 



(pl. 99, a; 102, c, d; 103, E; 105, g; 106, b; 108, a-d) 



Crocidoscma plebeiana Zeller, 1847, in Isis von Oken, 1847, Heft 10, p. 721-722. 

 Eucosma plebeiana Walsingham, 1914, in Biol. Centr.-Amer., Lep. Heter., v. 

 4, p. 231-232. 



Up to the present this almost cosmopolitan insect had not been re- 

 corded from the United States. Our collecting, however, showed it 

 well distributed and fairly abundant in Texas. In the United States 

 National Museum there are also several adults from California, so that 

 its known range may be said to correspond roughly with the distribution 

 of the Malvaceae. Adults were reared by us from the following plants: 

 Malvastrum spicatum (Brownsville, Tex., May, 191 9); hollyhock (Althaea 

 rosea) (Brownsville, Tex., May, 191 9); Malvaviscus drummondii (Smith 

 Point, Tex., November, December, 191 8; Anahuac, Tex., September, 

 1 91 8); okra {Hibiscus esculentus) (Double Bayou, Tex., November, 

 December, i9i8);and Kosteleyzkya spp. (Anahuac, Tex., November, 191 8). 

 Larvae were also collected in seed pods of H. militaris (Lake Charlotte, Tex., 

 September, 191 8) and in flowers of H. rosa-sinensis (Smith Point, Tex., 

 November, 191 8). They feed chiefly in the seed pods and on the seeds of 



