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dented at top, lobes full and rounded. Clypeus triangular, reaching only half way to 

 vertex. Thoracic legs yellowish green ; abdominal legs normal, complete crochets of 

 brown hooks. Skin vivid leaf green, slightly darker dorsal line and ventral sur- 

 face paler. Anal prolegs long, projecting back beyond anus. Xo lines or marks 

 on skin. Thoracic shield concolorous, but shining, tubercular plates concolorous and 

 inconspicuous. Spiracles minute, concolorous. Tubercle i at same height as ii, iii 

 directly dorsad to spiracle, iv caudad and ventrad to spiracle. Thorax ia + ib, iia -(- 

 iib. Set;¥ short and very slender, tubercles minute. 



Pupa. — From empty pupal skin ; very thin and flimsy. Length 5.5 mm. Wing 

 and antennal cases extend down to extreme end of anal segment, the latter a trifle 

 beyond as two blunt points. Cremaster small, very slightly indented, armed with 

 two short hairs, each terminating in a small recurved hook. Labial palpi about half 

 length of wing cases and swelling out to twice its average width, at about one third 

 below labrum. Just below eye cap, on each side between labial palpi and prothoracic 

 feet cases, is a slightly indented oblique suture forming a small triangular space that 

 perhaps indicates the position of the maxillary palpi. Dehiscence, the ventral edge 

 of antennal cases on one side separate from prothoracic foot, and on the other side 

 the lateral edge of antennal case separated from wing case for about half their length. 

 Part of vertex of head, clypeus, labrum and about half of eye-caps remain cemented 

 to labial palpi. 



Early in I\Ia\' the terminal twigs and almost every leaf of this 

 vine is crimipled and spun together by these slender green larvae, 

 each living separately. Pupated from May 15 to 20 and moths 

 began emerging May 27, continuing until middle of June. I have 

 not found any trace of a second brood. The larvc-e pupate within 

 the crumpled leaf, spinning a dense spider-web mass of white, silk, 

 pupa remains in cocoon when moth emerges. The moths have a 

 distinctive resting habit ; the legs are drawn up close to thorax and 

 latter is pressed down so that the ventral side touches the twig, the 

 wings are pressed tightly against abdomen and tilted up, at an angle 

 of fifteen to twenty degrees from the level of the surface on which 

 they are resting. In this position they can readily be mistaken for a 

 well-developed bud, as their general color is not unlike the bark of 

 the vine. 



Recurvaria. 



During the early spring of 1902 and 1903 I succeeded in breeding 

 moths of this genus from four different species of conifera, and after 

 having done so found I was able to clear up a case of wrong identifi- 

 cation with regard to one of the species. 



In the Fifth Report of the U. S. Entomological Commission, page 

 850, Fig. 284 is labelled Gelechia obliquisti-igella Cham. The type 

 oi obliquistrigella which Mr. Busck has examined at Cambridge and the 



