Noctuidse 



Genus PLATHYPENA Grote 



Only one species of the genus is known to occur within our 

 territory. 



(i) Plathypena scabra Fabricius, Plate XLII, Fig. 14, $, . 



Syn. erectalis Guen^e; pal pal is Haworlh; crassatns Haworth; o6e'i-(i//5 

 Stephens. 



Universally distributed through the United States and Canada 

 east of the Rocky Mountains. 



Genus HYPENA Schrank 



The genus is found in all parts of the globe. Three species 

 are known to be found in our territory. Of these we figure the 

 one which is commonest. 



(i) Hypena humuli Harris, Plate XLII, Fig. 12, $ ; Fig. 13, 

 ? , z'ar. 



Syn. cvafiidalis Robinson; geriiianalis Walker. 



This insect, the larva of 

 which does considerable w— — ■ « 



damage to the hop, is 

 widelydistributed overthe 

 whole of the United States 

 and Canada. It is some- 

 what variable in the shade 

 of the wings and the 

 amount of maculation 

 uponthem. Foranaccount 

 of the habits of the insect 

 and the best manner to 

 guard against the ravages 



which the larva commits Fig. 1 7 S.— Hypena humuH. a, egg; 6, larva; 

 the reader is referred to c, segment of do.; d, pupa; e, tip of do.; /, 

 the excellent article by Dr. adult. a, c, f, greatly enlarged. (After 

 L. O. Howard of the De- toward, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agric., New 

 partment of Agriculture ^'"''' ^°- ^' P" 44-) 



in Washington upon insects injurious to the hop-vine, which 

 was published as the Seventh Bulletin of the New Series of 

 Bulletins issued by the Division of Entomology of the Department. 



Arm. Who was Samson's love, my dear Moth ? 

 Moth. A woman, master. 



— Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, I, 2. 



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