192 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMlSSluJ^. 



the liue sends off a spur to the apes, but before reaching the apex a spur is scut to 

 the costa, also a 3-forked line to the outer edge of the wing. Hind wings, abdomen 

 and legs almost white. Expanse of wings, 20'"'". (Identified by Prof. Fernald.) 



268. Tortrix flaccidana Robinson. 



The habits of another leaf-roller have been observed and related by 

 Miss Emma A. Smith in Thomas' second report on the injurious insects 

 of Illinois (p. 114). It injures the black, red, burr, white, and pin oaks. 

 The species has been found in Texas as well as Illinois. 



Moth.— Pa\]^i, head and thorax pale ocherous. Anterior wings shining pale yellow, 

 almost entirely covered with pale olivaceous scales, so that the yellow ground color 

 is only evident just below costa at base, in two small costal spots at and beyond the 

 middle, and in a similar elongate spot on the disk below the two last mentioned. 

 There are three brown dots on the costa near the apex, which is also tinged with 

 brown. Posterior wings fuscous above, tinged apically with ferruginous; beneath 

 tinged with fuscous internally, pale testaceous bej^ond. Fringes whitish. Under 

 surface of anterior wings fuscous except the costa, which is pale testaceous. Ex- 

 panse, male, 20""". (Robinson.) 



269. THE V-MARKED CACtECIA. 



Cacoecia argiirospila Walker. 



The moth of this species is not uncommon, entering our houses at 

 night during July in Maine and Massachusetts. My specimens hav^e 

 been kindly determined by Prof. O. H. Fernald. 



This widespread species was first described in this country by Mr. C. 

 T. Robinson, in 1869, under the name of Tortrix furvana ; at nearly 

 the same time or soon after I described it in the Massachusetts Agricult- 

 ural Report for 1870 under the name of the Vniarked Tortrix (T. v-sig- 

 natana), and remarked that Mr. F. W. Putnam had raised it in abun- 

 dance from the cherry. In his account of this species Lord Walsingham* 

 remarks that in California it occurred near San Francisco, May 19, 

 1871. " The species also occurred about Mendocino in the middle of 

 June, and as far north as Mount Shasta in August. One specimen 

 emerged on the 21st of June from a pupa found a few days previously 

 between united leaves of u^sculus caUfornica (Nutt.), the Californian 

 horse-chestnut. 



In his Synonymical Catalogue of the Described Tortricidcv, Prof. C. 

 H. Fernald states : 



Professor Riley wrote me that he bred it on rose, apple, hickory, oak, soft maple, 

 •elm, and wild cherry. 



It thus appears to be a general feeder on our shade trees, living be- 

 tween the united leaves. It ranges from Maine, where it is common, 

 to Georgia, Texas, and Missouri, while it is not uncommon on the 

 Pacific coast. 



* Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of 

 the British Museum, part iv, London, 1879, p. 9. 



