196 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



JuQe. If these leaves be opeaed, a greeu wriggling larva will be found inclosed iu 

 a web within. 



The moth hatching from these folded leaves in June, if Lophoderus triferanus, may 

 be recognized as an insignificant browu species, about a half inch across the spread 

 wings. The fore wings are reddish browu except on the terminal fourth, which is 

 gray speckled with black, as is also the basal half of the posterior edge of the same 

 wings. 



The species was first described by Walker in 18153 as Cacoeoia triferana, and again 

 by Clemens in 1865, in the proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 

 under the name of Tortrix incertana, A better description of the moth, with figures 

 of male and female, is given by Robinson in Volume II of the Transactions of the 

 American Entomological Society, under the same specific name. 



As an injurious insect it is mentioned by Dr. Packard in the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural Report for 1870, and in the Tenth Report of the Geological and Geographical 

 Survey of Colorado and Adjacent Territory, 1876. By Miss Murtfeldt it is reported 

 as injurious to the rose, iu the third volume of the American Entomologist (1880), 

 and by Professor Liutner as a clover insect in the Annual Report of the New York 

 Agricultural Society for the same year. 



This species has been collected from Maine and New York to Illinois and Texas, 

 and has been found feeding on the cranberry, elm, soft maple, oak, apple, rose, beans, 

 Gnaphalium jiohfcephalum, clover, strawberry, and corn. Our specimens, collected 

 on May 29, emerged June 30. 



In all the foregoing articles except the first this species is treated under Clemens's 

 specific name, but in Fernald's Catalogue of the Tortricidi© of North America (1882) 

 this is reduced to a synonym of Walker's triferanus. The larva was not distinguished 

 in our breeding cages from that of the preceding species (Dichelia sul2)hureana). con- 

 sequently I am unable to give a detailed description of it. Clemens's description of 

 the imago is as follows : 



Moth. — Palpi ocherous or brownish ocherous except the minute third joint, which 

 is blackish. Head and thorax ocherous or brownish ocherous. Anterior wings pure 

 pale reddish brown within the central fascia, except on internal margin, which is 

 broadly covered at base with blackish brown scales, forming a rather prominent 

 irregular spot followed by an aggregation of intermediate pale ocherous and black- 

 ish scales to the fascia. Central fascia broad, distinctly dark browu, sometimes 

 reddish brown. The subapical costal spot is dark brown and separated from the 

 central fascia by a reddish brown shade. The remaining outer portion of the wing 

 pale ocherous except a testaceous brown spot above the anal angle. Fringes dark 

 ocherous. Posterior wings fuscous above, testaceous beneath. Fringes pale testa- 

 ceous, much clouded centrally with dark fuscous. Expanse, male 15, female 19™"^. 



274. Lophoderus veliitinana Walk. 



This species is said by Miss Murtfeldt to feed ou the laurel-oak, bal- 

 sam-lir, and maple. 



Moth. — Fore wings pale ocherous, darker on costa at base ; a large dark-brown 

 basal patch, not quite reaching the costa. Middle band dark brown to the middle 

 of the wing, reddish brown beyond, throwing out a booklet inwardly below the cell, 

 which curving upwardly nearly incloses a pale ocherous spot. Subapical costal spot 

 dark brown, serailunate, connected by a paler streak with internal angle. Expanse 

 of wings, 17""'", ' 



275. Phoxopteris murtfeldtiana Riley. 



Three specimens were bred from oak, May 19, by Miss Murtfeldt, in 

 Missouri. 



From Ph. spirecefoliana, which Dr. Clemens bred from larvre found 

 feeding on the leaves of Spiraea opuUfoUa, this oak-feeding species dif- 



