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is a row of granular, square elevations, extending across in a curved line Iietween the 

 wing cases. Last segment furnished with two small divergent points. 



Food plant. — White Oak [Querciis alba). During the first two larval 

 stages the insects eat only the upper portion of the leaf, and their yel- 

 lowish brown color well simulates its withered appearance. Subsequently 

 they devour the entire leaf with the exception of the largest veins, and 

 rest on its edge, where they might be mistaken for a curled and dis- 

 colored portion. 



Five eggs were deposited together in the present instance ; but the 

 larvae feed singly. 



I have seen no description of the female moth. It differs from the 

 male as follows : It is larger, the antenna; are not pectinated, and the 

 external margin of the primaries is slightly excavated between the veins- 

 for its lower half In coloration it much resembles the male; but the 

 "ochreous tinge" of the primaries below the median vein spoken of by 

 Dr. Packard (Proc. Ent, Soc. Phil., Vol. Ill, p. 367) is not to be seen. 

 The secondaries are tinged with cinereous for their outer third. 



Larvae from Dutchess County, New York. 



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Prop. C. V. Riley is in Europe, representing the U, S. Dep't of 



Agriculture at the Paris Exposition. 



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Prof. C. H. Fernald goes to Europe this Summer, and will study 

 all accessible types o^ Pyralldce. It is not a particularly creditable fact 

 to America that her entomologists must travel to a foreign country to 

 study American types — not ancient alone, but quite recent. The time 

 ought really be now at hand when American entomologists should have 

 a monopoly of describing American species, and should be able to find 

 room for their types in this country. I am a believer in "Protection to 

 Home Industries," and I believe there is plenty of room in our museums 

 to hold all the types to be deposited there for some years to come. 



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 StrppoSE each collector during the coming season notes down some 

 of the observations made by him concerning the habits of the insects he 

 collects, and gives them to his fellow collectors through the medium of 

 Entomologica Americana ! It would help all hands, including the 

 editor, for then there would be no dearth of the most valuable kind 

 of manuscript. 



