94 PAPERS ON CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS. 
Mr. C. L. Marlatt ' reared adults on June 5, 1896, from larve that 
were collected May 2 of that year at Nuecestown, Tex. Mr. Albert 
Koebele? reared adults on September 2 and 15, 1885, from larvee 
collected June 21 at Rattlesnake Bridge, Eldorado County, Cal. 
Mr. Koebele also noticed the entrance holes of young larve and the 
exit holes of older larve in the pod husks. He says, ‘‘The 
larve * * * spun a web on the bottom of the jar in which they 
pupated.” 
Mr. Theodore Pergande* received a number of larve from Mr. 
E. A. Schwarz collected at Cocoanut Grove, Fla., on May 9, 1887, and 
on May 26 reared an adult from this material. More material from 
the same source was received on June 1, and on the 24th three more 
adults emerged. 
Mr. H. O. Marsh obtained adults from January 9 to February 25, 
1909, from larve collected October 22, 1908, at Anaheim, Cal.+ 
' These observations indicate that two generations a year is char- 
acteristic of this species, the adults of the first appearing in early 
June and those of the second in September. The adults obtained in 
January and February were reared under laboratory conditicns, which 
very probably accelerated their development. In the more southern 
parts of its range this species may have more than two generations. 
FIELD WORK. | 
July 21, 1909, while examining the seed pods of the common 
lupine (Lupinus sp.) many were found to contain lepidopterous 
larve. In such pods the seeds were always more or less destroyed. 
The pods also contained a mass of frass which was held together by a 
loosely constructed web. A few days later, on examining the col- 
lected material, several of the pods were found with newly eaten 
holes in the sides and two larve were found with half their bodies 
within fresh pods. 
On August 7 one of the latve, very plump, was found still in the 
pod, it having in the meantime become suffused with a rosy color. 
This larva had constructed a loose silken cocoon, through which its 
body could be easily seen. Ten days later the larva pupated and 
emerged as an adult (Htiella zinckenella schisticolor) September 28. 
In the rearing cages with solid bases most of the larve left the seed 
pods and spun their cocoons among the litter and dirt in the bottom 
of the cages. In cages with bottoms of earth the larve always bur- 
rowed 2 or 3 inches below the surface to pupate. 
On August 1, 1910, Mr. M. W. Evans, of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, told the author of a larva that he was finding in the field-pea 

1 Bureau of Entomology Notes, No. 7044. 
2 Bureau of Entomology Notes, No. 48 K. 
8 Bureau of Entomology Notes, No. 4129. 
4 Bul. 82, Pt. III, Bur. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 25, 1909. 
