THE LEGUME POD MOTH. 91 
Bogue ' found the larve in the seed pods of the common rattlebox 
(Crotolaria sagittalis) at Stillwater, Okla., and Mr. E. A. Schwarz ? 
found them in the pods of a tropical species of 
this genus (Crotolaria incana) at Cocoanut Grove, 
Fla. Mr. C. L. Marlatt * records finding the 
larve in the seed pods of milk vetch (Astragalus 
sp.). They are also recorded by Herrich-Schaffer* _ 
5 . Ce : Fig. 28.—The legume pod 
as feeding in the seed pods of Spartium junceum “<< (iividie oindhenetia 
near Vienna, Austria. schisticolor): Egg. Great- 
During 1910 and 1911 the author reared the  ‘¥ ™*tsed: (Original.) 
species from the pods of common lupines (Lupinus spp.) and Canada 
field peas at Pullman, Wash. 
DESCRIPTION. 

THE EGG. 
(Fig. 28.) 
Egg glistening white, bluntly elliptical in outline and circular in cross section, 
measuring 0.58 mm. in length and 0.31 mm. in diameter. Chorion very delicate, 
colorless, and with fine irregular corrugations on the surface. 

Fig. 29.—The legume pod moth. Larva: a, Side view; b, lateral aspect of head; c, caudal segments; 
d, pronotal shield. a, Enlarged; b, c, d, greatly enlarged. (Original.* 
THE LARVA. 
(Fig. 29.) 
Full-grown larva from 12 to 17 mm. in length and from 2.5 to 3.5 mm. in diameter. 
Head yellow, black pateh over ocellar area; mandibles and tip of labrum black; 
five ocelli arranged in an anteriorly directed semicircle at base of antennz. ‘Dor 



1 Bureau of Entomology Notes, No. 7173. 
2 Bureau of Entomology Notes, No. 4129. 
3 Bureau of Entomology Notes, No. 7044. 
4 Syst. Bearb. der Schmett. von Europa, vol. 4, p. 72, 1849. 
