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blackberry {Bnbus villosus), and hazel, while in Maine Professor Fern- 

 aid has bred it on the Spirsea (see Comstock, Agricultural Report for 

 1880). Coquillett gives the following account of its habits : " Lives in 

 a leaf rolled from the apex to the base, or between two or three leaves 

 fastened together with silken threads. Found a great many May 30." 

 His specimens of the moth were named by Prof. C. H. Fernald. Those 

 which I bred were fresh, well-preserved specimens, and on submitting 

 them to Professor Fernald for identification he wrote me that they were 

 probably Eccopsis permundana (Clemens). 



Unfortunately I did not make a description of my caterpillars, and 

 therefore copy that of Mr. Coquillett: 



Larva. — Body green, usually clouded dorsally with dull leaden ; first segment 

 brownish ; head and cervical shield black or pale brownish ; piliferous spots and 

 spiracles concolorous ; anal plate unmarked. Length, 15™'" (Coquillett). 



Pupa. — Of the usual shape and color, abdominal segments having two rows of dor- 

 sal spines, while the tip of the abdomen is three-toothed, there being two small lat- 

 eral and a small median projection. There are also eight small, rather short, bristles 

 curved outwards at the ends, of which four are situated below the median tooth, and 

 two are situated near together on the side near but within the base of the lateral 

 tooth. There are two or three other setae on the side, but farther from the tip. 

 Length, 10™™. 



Moth.— A rather large species, with the general color brown-ash and umber-brown. 

 Head a little paler than the thorax, the latter with three transverse darker lines 

 above. Fore-wings with three large umber-brown patches, the basal one oblique, 

 extending from the inner edge of the wing and only reaching the median vein. A 

 median, irregular, broad band sending two blunt teeth inwards on the inner side; 

 the outer side with three acute teeth, one in front and a larger one behind the median 

 vein. A large, oval, umber-brown spot on the internal margin of the wing, and an- 

 other large, oblique one extending from a little below the middle of the outer edge 

 obliquely to the outer fourth of the costal edge, in its course contracting in width 

 and becoming very narrow before reaching the costa, on which it slightly expands, 

 forming one of the small costal brown spots beyond the middle of the wing. The 

 fringe pale, but dusky in the middle. Hind wings dark slate color, as is the under 

 side of both pairs of wings, as well as the abdomen, which, however, is paler at the 

 end. Expanse of wings, IS™*". 



76. The variegated eccopsis. 

 Eccopsia versicolorana (Clemens). 



This species also feeds upon the leaves of the white-heart hickory 

 (Gary a tomentosa) iu company with the foregoing species. The larva 

 begins to eat the leaves when they are unfolding, and the moth appears 

 by the middle of June. Unfortunately no notes were made on the cater- 

 pillar, as they were confounded with the other species until the emer- 

 gence of the moths showed that there were two species. 



Pupa. — Slenderer than that of E. permundana, the end of the abdomen tridentate, 

 with the eight bristles arranged as in the foregoing species, but much larger and lon- 

 ger. Length, 8"^^ to 9™™. 



Moth.—Pa\e, greenish, umber-brown, with whitish patches. Palpi whitish to the 

 tips. Head dark between the antennae, pale behind and in front. Fore-wings olive 

 green; a dark patch at base, becoming paler towards the inner edge of the wing. 



