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the 7th. It is dark chestnut brown in color. The moth issued 

 August 17th. 



DicJiclia sn/phiircana Clemens. 



Body tapering towards each end. The head is honey-yellow, 

 considerably narrower than the body. The body is pale livid green 

 with a corneous hue. There are no lines or any distinctive 

 markings except the four usual warts or small tubercles which 

 are arranged as usual in this family in a trapezoid. From these 

 warts arise hairs one-half as long as the body is thick. At the 

 end of the supra-anal plate is a flattened tubercule with spines. 

 Length 15 m. m. 



Common on Piuus strobi at Brunswick, Me., and also found 

 on P. rigida the first week in August. 



August 5th it began to make a slight cocoon by drawing 

 together the leaves into a rude tube and spinning a slight cocoon 

 between them. The pupa was found between the leaves August 

 7th. The moth appeared August i6-i7th. 



It agrees well with Robinson's PL V., fig. 37, though differing 

 in some respects. According to Fernald's Catalogue of Tortricidae, 

 this common species feeds on the clover, Vitis, Ranunculus acris, 

 and is an inquiline in willow galls. 



Teras fej'rngana^ S.V. The larva was beaten from the white 

 pine {P. strobi) at Providence, October 5th. The body is rather 

 large, 20 ™'" in length, broad and flat. Head flattened, held 

 out horizontally, reddish above, with a dark broad line around 

 the edge. The body is green, with a reddish tint. The cervical 

 shield is concolorous with the body and edged behind with dark 

 black-brown, forming a curved line. Over the body above are 

 scattered pale flecks. 



The caterpillar pupated in the bottom of the breeding box, 

 without making any cocoon. The pupa is slerfder, 8 """^ in 

 length, of the usual pale horn-brown color. Each abdominal 

 segment is provided with two dorsal transverse rows of close set 

 spines. The tip of the abdomen is suddenly truncated, compressed 

 from above downwards, the edge is hollowed within, the edge 

 itself curvilinear, with a small spine on each side. 



The moth appeared October 20th or 21st. I am indebted to 

 Prof. C. H. Fernald for kindly identifying it. According to his 

 Catalogue of Tortricidae of North America, this common European 

 species feeds in Europe on the beech, birch and oak (Heinemann), 

 and, according to Walsh, is in this country an inquiline in galls 

 oi C. Salicis strobiloides. It could not have been mixed with other 

 Tortricids in my breeding tin box, as it was the only Tortricid in 

 the little box, hence I think there is no doubt but that it at least 

 occasionally feeds on the white pine. The larva is very character- 

 istic and easily recognizable. 



I have reared ToxX.x\-s.{Cacoecid) rosaceana Harris, iroxn Betula 



