80 MISCELLANEOUS RESULTS OF WORK OF BUREAU IX. 



in the manner described by Doctor Clemens for caryxfoliello , and 1 

 believe it to be the same species. '' 



During 1882 Lord Walsinghani'^ identified a specimen, reared from 

 Prunus americana, as C. rufolnteella which he thought to be distinct 

 from caryxfoliella. Packard/' in 1890, wrote of this insect, under 

 insects injurious to hickor}-: "The larva feeds in a C3dindrical case 

 attached to the under surface of the leaves." 



During the same year there was published in Insect Life^ a brief 

 note recording the parasite, Rhyssalus trilineatus Ashm., as having 

 been reared from this species on hickory at Washington, D. C, May 

 5, 1883. 



Apparently nothing more was written uiitil 1905, when Gossard,^ 

 in his bulletin on pecan insects, mentions what is undoubtedly this 

 species as " Coleophora sp." 



RECENT RECORDS. 



Alay 5, 1901, Mr. L. O. McPherson, of Josephine, Ala., sent in larvse 

 of this species affecting the pecan. Writing of this attack, October 23, 

 1905, Mr. ISIcPherson stated that in the year mentioned this insect 

 entirely denuded a number of large trees of their leaves during 

 May and June only. 



June 3, 1907, the larval cases of this insect were observed on pecan 

 at Orlando, Fla. March 16, 1908, the winter cases of these larvae 

 were found clustered together on twigs of pecan in a deserted grove 

 outside of Orlando. April 2 and 7, 1908, the larv« were again 

 observed at Orlando, Fla. They were just leaving their winter cases 

 for the larger spring cases. 



In 1909, during April and May, several large trees in the grove of 

 Mr. C. W. Townsend, of Orlando, Fla., were almost completely i)re- 

 vented from putting out foliage until weeks after other trees had done 

 so, because the larvae of this species were so numerous on the buds 

 and leaves. May 11 found this insect causing considerable defolia- 

 tion to pecan trees at the old Standard Oil grove just west of Orlando, 

 now owned by Mr. Long. At the same time it was abundant in all 

 the groves around Orlando. On Alay 16 Mr. J. D. Mitchell, of this 

 Bureau, reared this insect from leaves of pecan at Victoria, Tex. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



This species was first described by Clemens in a paper on North 

 American Tineina, but the locality for his specimens is not given. 

 V. T. Chambers records it from larval cases taken in Kentucky and 

 records capture of the adult at Covington, Ky. Prof. H. A. Gossard 

 records what is undoubtedly this species as met with on "almost 

 every tree I examined for the purpose of finding it" in Florida. 

 The author, while working in Florida during the years 1907-1909, 

 found it in every grove examined around Orlando. 



