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sal and stigmatal line ; a row of white dots on dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal spaces ; venter green, unmarked ; head green ; length ^ 

 inch. Feeds on yellow dock. A dozen or so of these larvae 

 issued from eggs June 2 ; they spun thin cocoons beneath chips, 

 etc.,^from June 18, to 21, producing the imagoes, July 4 to 7. 



Pyrrhia ANGULATA, Grote, — Body bluish white; a yellow- 

 ish brown stigmatal stripe ; from the stigmatal stripe on one side 

 of the body to that on the other side are about 10 black lines; 

 sometimes a dorsal row of about 7 yellowish brown spots ; pilifer- 

 ous spots, black ; venter pale greenish ; head shining yellow, 

 with a black dot on each side near the jaws, the jaws sometimes 

 black; length, i)^ inches. Several specimens found upon 

 smartweed {Polygonum Pennsylvaniciiiii), September 15 ; they en- 

 tered the earth about three inches and formed oval cells, Septem- 

 ber 27, disclosing the imagoes May 22, and a few days afterward. 



Tarache erastrioides, Guence. — Body deep green ; a 

 white stigmatal stripe ; body marked with 16 or 18 wavy black 

 or white lines, or with 12 white lines; venter green, marked 

 with 7 or 8 white lines ; head green, striped with white, or 

 marked with black and white ; length, i inch. Several specimens 

 found on ragweed (^;;/(5'r^.yzV2: arteniisifolia), July 11 ; they en- 

 tered the earth (date not known), disclosing the imagoes about 

 May 22 of the following year. 



" NORTH-AMERICAN TORTRICID^." 



By Lord Walsingham, London, 1879. 



This work, in quarto, with 17 colored plates, forms Part IV^. 

 of the "Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Hetero- 

 cera in the collection of the British Museum," and " deals ex- 

 clusively with the North American Tortricidae in the National 

 collection." 



The value of Lord Walsingham's work can be best appreci- 

 ated by the specialist, and when we consider that it completes the 

 work of Robinson and Fernald in identifying Mr. Walker's types 

 in that group, we should be willing to consider its value great. 

 But it goes further than this, and gives a fair illustration of our 

 Western Tortricidae from material collected by the author in Cali- 

 fornia and Oregon. In addition, a list is given of all the species 

 which are common to Europe and North America. These latter 

 are forty-eight in number, a seemingly large percentage of the 

 species known. Thanks to the labors of Robinson, Zeller, Fer- 

 nald, and Walsingham (I name them in the order of priority), our 

 North American Tortricidae are becoming better known and 

 classified, so that they are being brought into correspondence 

 with the European catalogues. This has been my aim with the 



