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suggested; and in the Western Rural for May 10, of that year, a 
correspondent at North Bend, Indiana, mentions the occurrence of 
the leaf-roller there in destructive numbers. 
Besides the above, there have been published, as usual, many 
newspaper and other summaries, more are less complete, of ascer- 
tained facts, which it is not necessary to cite, because they add 
nothing to our knowledge of the species in any of its relations. 
In Prof. Fernald’s Catalogue of the Tortricide* of North America, 
this species is entered as Phoxopteris fragarie, Walsh and Riley, 
and its brief bibliography and synonymy are given. It is there 
assigned to its proper genus, but is still held distinct from comp- 
tana; but in a letter dated March 13, Prof. Fernald informs me 
that, after a critical examination of his Kuropean and American 
material representing comptana and jfragarie, he is of the opinion 
that they are not distinct, but belong to one variable species. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Although so prominent in the literature of economic entomology, 
this species has been very imperfectly described. The following 
description of larva and pupa is drawn up from specimens collected 
in strawberry fields in Illinois; but that of the moth was kindly 
contributed by Prof. C. H. Fernald, of Orono, Maine, the leading 
American authority on this family of Lepidoptera. 
Imago.—(Plate VI, Tig. 7, ¢c.) “Expanse of wings, 10-13 mm. 
Head and thorax, light reddish brown to dull ashy brown; palpi, 
fuscous on the outside, darker towards the apex, lighter at the base 
and within; last joint nearly concealed by the long hairs of the 
second. Antenne dark fuscous, paler beneath. Fore wings with a 
large, semi-ovate spot of the same brown color as the thorax, resting on 
the basal half of the hinder margin (inner margin of some authors), 
and extending two-thirds of the way across to the costa, where it 
is not always clearly limited from the costal third of the wing, 
which is white, tinted with brownish or ochery and marked with a 
series of minute brown costal streaks with more or less sprinkles of 
the same color. ‘The outer edge of the semi-ovate spot varies some- 
what in form as in other species of this genus. The ground color 
of the basal half of the costa, changing more or less to a silvery 
gray in its course, extends across the wing beyond the semi-ovate 
spot, as a narrow, oblique band, to the hinder margin, where it ex- 
pands outward and upward, covering a large area on the anal angle 
and including an oblique brown spot before the angle. The part of 
the wing above this is concolorous with the semi-ovate spot and 
marked on the outer half of the costa with four pairs of oblique 
white streaks, the inner one of which extends to the outer margin 
a little below the middle. Some specimens show one or two hori- 
zontal black streaks near the middle of the outer part of the wing. 
Fringes sordid white or tinged with ochery, brown at the apex and 
cut immediately below by two white streaks with brown between. 
*Transactions American Entomological Society, Vol. X, p. 68, May, 1882. 
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