656 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



In the mean while Professor Fernald has referred the insect provisionally to the 

 genus Steganoptycha Stephens (1&34), under the name of S. claypoleana. 



In Papilio (iii, 191) Professor Riley remarks : " Through the courtesy of Prof. E. W. 

 Claypole we received this spring from Mrs. L. H. Lewis some larvse of the buckeye 

 stem-borer noticed in November, 1882, issue of the American Naturalist (p. 914), and 

 have obtained therefrom a number of perfect moths." The reference by Professor 

 Fernald, he adds, to Steganoptycha is evidetly correct. He then states: "None of 

 the larvae we received were boring in the leaf-stem, but rolled themselves up in the 

 green leaves upon which they fed. It is doubtless more of a blossom and leaf feeder 

 than a stem-borer. The larvie were feeding during the first half of May, and the 

 moths issued during the first week in June." 



Moth. — The general resemblance of some of the specimens to others of Proteoteras 

 wsculana is great, but with the perfect specimens the differences upon close inspec- 

 tion become quite marked. S. claypoleana lacks the notch in the posterior borders 

 of the forewings, the tufts of raised scales on the disk of the same, and the peculiar 

 tufts or pencils of hairs on the upper surface of the hind wings in the male, between 

 the margin and the costal vein. It is a shorter, broader- winged species ; the ocellate 

 spot is less distinctly relieved, the median oblique band more broken, the basal-costal 

 portion paler and contrasted along the median vein with a darker shade, which may 

 be almost black, and which broadens posteriorly till near the middle of the wing, 

 where it is abruptly relieved by a pale space obliquing basally. By these characters 

 the species is easily distinguished from cescnlana, and it is withal a grayer species 

 with the pale and dark shades more highly and abruptly contrasted. (Riley I.e.) 



2. Proteoteras cesculana Riley. 

 Professor Eiley's account of this worm is to be found in the Transac- 

 tions of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences, iv, p. 321. He bred it from 

 larvse boring in the tender terminal twigs of the buckeye and maple in 

 Missouri. 



AFFECTING THE LEAVES. 

 3. Apatela hamamelis. 

 According to Mr. R. Thaxter (Psyche, ii, p. 35) this species lives upon 

 the horse-chestnut, but he gives no description of the caterpillar. 



4. Tortricid larva. 



Several tortricid larvje occurred on the leaves of the horse- chest nut 

 at Salem, Mass., August 20 to 27, of which the following is a brief 

 description : 



Larva. — Pale reddish brown, curiously mottled with pale green, forming much in- 

 terrupted, very irregularly edged brown lines. Beneath grass-green. Head greenish, 

 irregularly speckled with brown. A dark green dorsal line. It spun a cocoon of silk, 

 with very fine bits of leaves woven in. 



The following also prey on the buc'keye: 



Order Lepidoptera. 



5. Orgyia leucostigma (Abb. and Sm.) Riley (MS. notes). 



6. Caccecia argyrospila Walker. California on ^sculus californica. (See 



p. 192.) 



7. Sericoris inscrutana Clem. Claypole. (Fernald's Cat. TortricidfB, p. 



35.) 



8. Lithocolletis guttifinitella Clem. Var. (esculisella Chamb. Larva in a 



flat, blotch mine in the upper surface of the leaves. (Chambers.) 



