Eleventh Report of the State Entomologist 127 



Phakellura nitidalis. Comstock : in Rept. U. S. Comm. Agr, for 1879^ 



p. 219 (reference). 

 Endioptis nitidalis. Grote : New Check List of N. Amer. Moths, 1882^ 



p. 54, no. 160. 

 Phacellura nitidalis. Cooke : Ins. Inj. Orch.-Vin., 1883, pp. 304-305, 



fig. 301 (general account). 

 Eudioptis nitidalis. Saunders: Ins. Inj. Fruits, 1883, 1889, pp. 367-368^ 



figs. 378, 379 (habits, remedies, brief). 

 Phacellura nitidalis. Edge: in Rept. Penn, State Bd. Agr. for 1883, 



1884, pp. 65-66, figs. 3, 4 on pi. (brief notice). 

 Eudioptis nitidalis. Fernald : in Kingsley's Stand. Nat. Hist., ii, Crust. 



and Ins., 1884, p. 444, fig. 564 (reference). 

 Phakellura nitidalis. Lintner : in Country Gent., 1, 1885, p. 607 (from 



Tenn. ; general notice); in do. li, 1886, p. 733 (from Va.); 3rd 



Rep. Ins. N. Y., 1886, pp. 140, 141 (reference); 5th do., 1889,. 



p. 320 (reference); in Country Gent., lix, 1894, p. 721 (from 



North and South Carolina); loth Rept. Ins. N. Y. for 1894, 



1895, p. 503 (reference). 



Eudioptis nitidalis. Ashmead: in Bull. 14 U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., 



1887, p. 24 (lists, food-plants, etc.). 

 Eudioptis nitidalis. Edwards: Bull. 35 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1889, pp. in— 



112 (bibliography of transformations). 

 Eudioptis nitidalis. Campbell: in Bull. 3 Ga. Agr. Expt. Stat., 1889, 



pp. 46-47 (habits, remedies). 

 Margaronia nitidalis. Smith: List Lepidop. Bor. Amer., 1891, p. 75,. 



no. 3975 (listed); Econom. Entomol., 1896, p. 311, fig. 354 



(mention). 

 Eudioptis nitidalis. Moffat: in Canad. Entomol., xxiv, 1892, p. 13? 



(taken in Can. by Mr, Hill). 

 Eudioptis nitidalis. Hopkins-Rumsey: Bull. 44 W. Va. Agr. Expt. Stat. ^ 



1896, pp. 300, 317 (brief notice and remedies). 

 Margaronia nitidalis. Quaintance : Bull. 34 Fla. Agr. Expt. Stat.,. 



1896, pp. 292-293 (brief notice as squash borer). 



Specimens of a caterpillar were communicated in September, 1894, by 

 a correspondent of the Country Gentleman from Pendleton, S. C, which 

 had been very injurious to his crop of muskmelons. One of the two ex- 

 amples gave out soon after its reception the beautiful moth, Eudioptis 

 nitidalis, a well known pest of cucumbers and melons in the Western 

 States where the larva is commonly known as "the pickle worm." 

 This name was given it by Prof. Riley, from its having been found quite 

 frequently in pickled cucumbers, as related in the extended account of 

 the insect contained in his Second Report on the Insects of Missouri. In 

 the Southern States it is more commonly found attacking melons. 



The Pendleton, S. C, correspondent writes as follows of the insect, its 



boring operations and losses caused by it : 



Enclosed find a smaller and a larger worm or borer that has upon an 

 average destroyed eight-tenths of our cantaloupe crop for the last three 



