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PAPERS ON CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS. 
THE LEGUME POD MOTH. 
(Etiella zinckenella schisticolor Zell.) 
By James A. Hys.op, 
Agent and Expert, Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations. 
HISTORICAL. 
The first mention of the legume pod moth (Etiella zinckenella 
schisticolor Zell.) as of economic importance in the United States is 
found in the unpublished notes of Mr. Theodore Pergande* in the 
files of the Bureau of Entomology, and refers to a number of lima- 
bean pods sent in by Mr. Albert Koebele from Eldorado County, 
Cal., on July 21, 1885. The larve were reported as doing consider- 
able damage to the bean crop in that region. They left the pods and, 
if not full grown, entered other pods to continue feeding or, if full 
grown, constructed slight cocoons in the bottom of the rearing jar 
and pupated. Adults emerged September 2 and September 15. 
A similar reference,’ from the same source, refers to a number of 
pods of Crotolaria vncana collected by Mr. E. A. Schwarz at Cocoanut 
Grove, Fla., on May 9, 1887, and sent to the Bureau of Entomology. 
The larve were eating the seed, and from these on May 16 an adult 
emerged. From a second lot of seed pods from the same source 
received on June 1, three more moths emerged on the 24th. 
On May 2, 1896, a number of pods of Astragalus sp. were received 
by the bureau from Mr. C. L. Marlatt,’ the material having been 
collected at Neucestown, Tex., infested with larve of Etiella zincken- 
ella. On May 13 a braconid parasite issued, and on June 5 an adult 
moth emerged. 
A single specimen was received from Mr. E. E. Bogue,‘ of Still- 
water, Okla., on August 17, 1896, which he had previously reared 
‘from the seed pod of Ge sagittalis. 
Dr. F. H. Chittenden,’ of this bureau, has published a paper on 
this insect in which the records made by Mr. H. O. Marsh are incor- 
1 Bureau of Entomology Notes, No. 3819. 
2 Bureau of Entomology Notes, No. 4129. 
3 Bureau of Entomology Notes, No. 7044. 
4 Bureau of Entomology Notes, No. 7173. 
5 Bul. 82, Pt. III, Bur. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 25, 1909. 
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