668 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



Female.— Length of body, 1.6""" ; length of wiug, 2.3™'" ; length of antenna, 1.3'"'n. 

 Autennse 14-jointed (2 x 12); joints pediceled, subcyliudrical, and subequal, each 

 joint with two whorls of short and delicate hairs, a whorl at each end of the joint, 

 the hairs of the ))08terior whorl being somewhat longer than those of the anterior. 

 Color as with the male, a little more dusky perhaps on the thorax. In other respects, 

 except in generative organs, resembles the male. 



Described from four male and nine female specimens. (Comstock Ag. Rt., 1880.) 



INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE WITCH HAZEL. 



Hamamelis virginica. 

 1. Gracilaria superbifrontella Clem. 



The larva (says Clemens) may be found in the middle of July, in 

 cones, on the leaves o( Hamamelis virginica (witch hazel), and the imago 

 appears early in August. This insect must approach very closely the 

 European swederella. 



Larva. — The head of the larva is pale green ; body pale green, darker-colored by 

 the ingesta, with the tenth ring whitish, and the cervical shield pale brown. 



Moth. — Labial palpi yellow, tipped with brownish. Antenute dull yellow, with 

 very faint brownish rings. Head stramineous, tinged with reddish-violet on the fore- 

 head. Thorax stramineous, with teguiae externally striped with reddish-violet. 

 Forewings beautiful reddish-violet, with a shining stramineous patch on the inner 

 margin at the base, and a large costal triangle of the same hue, reaching almost 

 across the wiug, and extending along the costa from the basal third, nearly to the 

 apex. Hind wings blackish gray ; cilia dark fuscous. (Clemens.) 



2. Catastega hamameJiella Clem. 



The larva constructs a little, short tube of frass along the midrib of 

 the leaf of witch hazel, Hamamelis virginica, during the latter part of 

 September. The tube is begun in the angle made by a vein and the 

 midrib, and the triangular space between them is covered with a thin 

 web of silk, having beneath it the tube. (Clemens.) 



Larva. — The larva is nearly cylindrical, slender, with the head pointed. It is of a 

 uniform, rather pale-green color. (Clemens.) 



The following insects also occur on the witch hazel : 



3. Halesidota caryce (Harris). Beuteumiiller (Ent. Amer., vi, p. 16). 



4. Fccopsis footiana Feruald. Kellicott, Bull. Buffalo Soc, iv, 1882. 



Feruald's Cat. Tortricidae, p. 36. 



5. Sericoris niveiguttana Grote. Kellicott, Bull. Buffalo Soc, iv, 1882. 



Fernald's Cat. Tortricidfe, p. 36. 



6. Semasia argutana (Clem.) Clemens in Fernald's Cat. Tortricidae, 



p. 45. 



