202 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



D. C. Specimens were also received from Miss M. Murtfeldt, Kirk- 

 wooil, Mo- (Riley's unpublished notes.) 



The moth has pale reddish saffrou fore wings, with a slight brassy hue. Along the 

 front edge (.costa) are five silvery- white costal streaks ; on the inner margin are two 

 conspicuous silvery dorsal streaks, while the hind wings are grayish fuscous. (Corn- 

 stock.) 



281. Ypsolophus quercipomonella Chambers. 



The following account of this Tineid has been furnished us by Pro- 

 fessor Riley : 



At Glenwood, Mo., folding up the leaves of the black oak in little tubes. June 2, 

 18(38, one changed to chrysalis. The chrysalis is formed within the leaf, the cater- 

 pillar first lining it with a little white silk. The first moth issued June 15, and 

 others up to the 22nd. Zeller says it is the same as a variable, often lighter brown 

 spotted species, which he has olten received from Ohio. (Unpublished notes.) 



Larva. — Length, .60 inch. A striped white and black worm with a red-brown 

 head and cervical shield. Considering the ground color as white, there is a black 

 dorsal line somewhat restricted at the joints, and on each side of the dorsum another 

 somewhat wavy line, separated from a lateral broader one only by a fine white line. 

 Outer edge along stigmata white, and all underneath it black glaucus. Piliferous 

 spots above quite large and black with a white annulation, two of them situated 

 in a black wavy line and one on lateral black line just above stigmata. Stigmata 

 small, with a smaller i)iliferous spot just below it, and others on venter. Segment 1 

 dark below cervical shield. Segment 2 darker than the others, with a white anterior 

 «dge. Last two segments almost entirely black above, being sharply separated from 

 anus and anal prolega, which are of a very light yellow. Feet black. Abdominal 

 prolegs same as venter. Single white bristle from each spot. (Riley.) 



Ptipa. — The chrysalis averages .38 inch in length, with the abdomen comparatively 

 narrow and small compared with the width of the anterior half, the extremity taper- 

 ino^ to a single point ; of the normal color, but characterized especially by having 

 about six pairs of little elevations on the dorsum, immediately behind the thorax, 

 and three others each side of them along the upper edge of wing-sheaths. It is quite 

 active, and whirls its body around at a great rate when disturbed. (Unpublished 



notes.) 



282. The oak sack-bearer. 

 a h 



Coleophora, species not determined. 



Order Lepidoptera; family Tineid.e. 



We have found this interesting sack bearer on 

 oak leaves at Providence, R. I., June 16. It ap- 

 parently belongs to the genus Coleophora, which 

 inhabits tubular cases, either straight or more 

 or less coiled at the end, which the caterpillar 

 Fig. m.— Coleophora, or oak drags about with it, suddenly withdrawing in 

 sack-bearer, natural size: it whcu disturbed. The little circular masscs ou 



«, side view; 6, dorsal view, 



enlarged.— Gissier, del. each Side of the coil are the pellets of excrement. 



283. Odontota rubra Web. 

 Order Coleoptera ; family CHRYSOMELiDiE. 



Professor Riley found, November 4, 1876, three larvae of this beetle 

 mining in the leaves of the white oak, near River des Peres. (Unpub- 

 lished notes.) 



