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tinned basally in the shape of two faint lines to the transverse band already mentioned, where they 

 almost converge, the space enclosed bj them bein I i the rest of the wing, with a darker 



line along' the middle. Beyond this discal spot, at about the outer fourth of the wing is ai 

 dark but less distinct diffuse transverse band, rallel with posti Iwithawhite 



eig-zag line produced into an acute angle, basally, on the internal margin, the Bpac 

 band and the discal spot being also quite light. A row of marginal black dots, with the apex light. 

 Fringes concolorous. Hind wings somewhat more dusky with darker margins and veins and lighter 

 fringes. Eead, thorax, abdomen, antennas, palpi and legs all pale gray, being mure silvery on the 

 under than on the upper side. 



One specimen from Win. Saunders. 



THE STRAWBERRY LEAF-ROLLER, Anchylopera fragarice, 

 Walsh and Riley— PI. 2, Figs. 26 and 27. 



[Fig. SO ] 



1 1 



mm 



a. ' i 



The above figure represents an insect which devours the leaves 

 of our strawberries. A more perfect picture of the moth is given 

 enlarged at Plate 2, Figure 26, and of the natural size at Figure 27. 

 It was first described in the January number of the American Ento- 

 mologist, from which I take the following account of it. 



For nearly two years, we have been acquainted with a little green- 

 ish leaf-roller, measuring about one-third of an inch, (Fig. 80, a), which 

 in certain parts of North Illinois and Indiana, has been ruining the 

 strawberry fields in a most wholesale manner; and which also occurs 

 in Canada, judging from an account in the Canada Farmer of Au- 

 gust 1, 1867. It crumples and folds the leaves, feeding on their pulpy 

 substance, and causing them to appear dry and seared, and most usu- 

 ally lines the inside of the fold with silk. There are two broods of 

 this leaf roller during the year, and the worms of the first brood, 

 which appear during the month of June, change to the pupa state 

 within the rolled-up leaf, ;nid become minute reddish-brown moths 

 (Fig. SO o) during the fore part of July. Alter pairing in the usual 

 manner, the females deposit their eggs on the plants, from which eggs 

 in due time, hatches a second brood of worms. These last come to 

 their growth towards the end of September, and changing to pupae, 

 pass the winter in that state. 



We first heard of this leaf roller in the summer of I860, when it 

 did considerable damage at Valparaiso, Indiana, and we were in- 

 formed by Mr. N. R. Strong, of that place, that in 1S67 they continued 

 their depredations with him, and destroyed 10 acres so completely as 

 not to leave plants enough to set half an acre, and that in consequence 



