[Yol. VII. No. 1.] 



INSECT LIFE 



[Issued September, 1894.] 



THE CRANBERRY GIRDLER 



{Cramhus iopiarliis Zell.) 



By Samuel H. Souddeh, Camhridye, Mass. 



Late iu June of last year my attention was called by Mr. CI. R. Briggs, 

 of Plymouth, Mass., to tlie injury done by some insect to cranberry 

 meadows under bis care. He suspected that certain moths then flying 

 in some numbers over the bogs might be connected with it. I visited 

 the ])lautation on July 3 and September 23 and again this year on July 



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Fig. l. — Orambu-i topiarius ; a, egg, witli summit much enlarged; 6, mature larva, c, one of the 

 abdominal segments of larva; d, chrysalis; e, nest of young larva in grass; /, imago— all enlarged. 

 (« and e after Felt ; other figs, original.) 



18. On the first visit a number of moths were taken, nearly all of one 

 species, which was later determined for me by Prof. C. H. Fernald as 

 CramOKS topiarius Zell. All the specimens of the moth then brought 

 home alive for breeding proved to be males, but on my visit this year 

 I procured some females, which readily and at once laid in confinement. 



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