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pigment from the examples furnished by 
you, but as it occurs in such minute quan- 
tities I was obliged to give up that idea, 
and to experiment on the entire wing ; this 
may account for my not being able to re- 
PSYCHE. 
store the blue color by means of alkalies. 
Yours truly, 
Joseph M. Wilson, S. B. 
Charlestown, Mass., 
25 July 1880. 
NOTES ON PHOXOPTERIS ANGULIFASCIANA ZELL. 
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BY CHARLES HENRY FERNALD, ORONO, ME. 
On the 25d of May 1878, between one 
and two p. m., I saw a small Tortricid 
fluttering in a very peculiar manner over a 
patch of clover. Approaching nearer, so 
that I could observe more closely, I found 
that she was depositing her eggs on the 
leaves of the white clover (Zrifolium re- 
pens). 
She fluttered about on the upper side 
of the leaf for a little time, then standing 
over and in a line with the midrib, she de- 
posited an egg on the midrib, about one- 
third the distance from the end. In some 
cases only one egg was deposited on a leaf, 
in others, two; but in the latter case the 
second egg was deposited in the same man- 
ner as the first, but at a third of the dis- 
tance from the opposite end of the leaf. 
Having observed the manner of depositing 
the egg, I attempted to capture the fe- 
male, but failed to do so. I therefore 
took up the plants into a flower pot, taking 
them into the house where their trans- 
formations could be observed. 
The eggs were of an oval form, some- 
what flattened, so as to rise but little above 
the surface of the leaf. The length was 0.8 
mm., width 0.6 mm., thickness about 0.4 
mm. Color dull grayish white, transpar- 
ent at the edges; surface reticulated, 
as could be seen under a strong lens, with 
a play of colors. 
The moth was not easily disturbed while 
depositing her eggs, and readily distin- 
guished between the leaves of clover and 
sorrel, alighting several times on leaves of 
the latter, and as quickly flying off to an- 
other leaf, not stopping till she came to 
the leaves of clover. 
Being called away from home at this 
time, I did not learn the time required for 
the eggs to hatch, but on my return I found 
that the young larvae had hatched and were 
They drew the edges of the leaf- 
let up together, securing them with silk, 
feeding. 
and fed on the epidermis of the upper side 
of the leaflet, and on the parenchyma, leay- 
ing the epidermis of the lower side of the 
leaflet — now the outside of their domicil 
—jintact, while the excrements were de- 
posited in one end of the closed leaflet. 
After having eaten all the food furnished 
by one leaflet, they at once left for another, 
going down one leafstalk and up another. 
I did not have an opportunity to make a 
description of the larva at the time, but 
remember it as being dull glassy green. 
Early in July the moths emerged, and 
proved to be Phoxopteris angulifasciana 
Zell. 
