194 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



of Peoria.* Professor Riley adds that tiie eggs, hatched about the 

 1st of July and last of Juue, had become moths by the 1st of August ; 

 and then again those found September 1 must have been of a t bird 

 brood, which winters over in the chrysalis. The eggs, according to 

 Eiley, are placed in clusters on the leaf. 



Miss Smith's paper gives quite a full account of the habits and rav- 

 ages of this insect in her vicinity. This is the Tortrix paludana of Rob- 

 inson. It is attacked by Calosoma scrutator Fabr., Podlsus spinosiis 

 Dall., also by Diplodus luridus St^l, and by Plmpla conquisitor Say. 



Larva. — When full grown, .80 to .85 of an inch. Color dull brownish buff. Form 

 subcylindrical, being flat below ; tapers slightly posteriorly but not anteriorly. Dor- 

 sura light. A subdorsal darker band, edged above and below with a black line, the 

 upper one being thickest. Wrinkled transver -ely, one indenture especially in the 

 middle of each segment. Thoracic segments somewhat largest. Head as wide as 

 No. 1 and carried nearly horizontally. It is dark brown, mottled with white. 

 Venter, feet, and legs of same color as subdorsal band. Covered with fine sparse 

 hairs. This worm is not very active, but when touched wriggles and lets itself down 

 by a thread. It is quite variable in the depth of shading, some being very light,^ 

 while others are quite dark, and some even have a greenish tinge. (Riley's unpub- 

 lished notes.) 



Moth. — Palpi reddish brown, short, the third joint extending beyond the head. 

 Head and thorax reddish brown above. Anterior wings reddish brown, much 

 clouded with fuscous beyond the middle. A dark brown patch on the middle of 

 costa and a smaller one on the disk below it indicate the central fascia, A large 

 dark brown subapical patch is continued as a broad fuscous shade to internal angle. 

 Fringes paFe. Posterior wings very dark, fuscous above; pale testaceous beneath^ 

 tinged with fuscous internally. Fringes pale testaceous. Abdomen fuscous above, 

 pale testaceous beneath. Under surface of anterior wings entirely clouded with fus- 

 cous, giving in some lights a purple reflection. Expanse, male, 20""™; female, 23'^™. 

 (Robinson). 



270. Cenopis qiiercana (Fernald.) 



The caterpillar has been found by Professor Comstock feeding on the 

 oak, and by Miss Murtfeldt on the cultivated cherry. 



Moth. — Thorax and fore wings dull rust-red. Basal patch, median and subapical 

 bauds lighter in the males and inclining to yellowish on the costa, with strong green- 

 ish reflections when seen in an oblique light, showing most strongly in the females. 

 Expanse of wings, 14 to 16"^"^. (B'ernald). 



271. Cenopis reticulaiana (Clemens). 



Besides the oak the caterpillar is said by Miss Murtfeldt to feed on 

 the osage orange, maple, persimmon, and pear. 



Moth. — Fore wings yellow, finely reticulated with orange; costa at base tinged 

 with purple. Central fascia purple, commencing in a spot on the costa before the 

 middle and ending in the apex of a large triangular spot of the same hue on the 

 inner edge. The large purple costal spot throws out a line, which is forked just 

 below it, one branch running obliquely inward to the triangular spot on the inner 

 margin, the other outwardly to before the inner angle. Hind wings and fringes 

 very pale yellow. Expanse of wings, 17 to 22™™. (Robinson). 



* Paper read before the Northern Horticultural Society at Franklin Grove, and 

 published in the Prairie Farmer January 9, 1878. 



