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At Alton, Mr. If. Hollister informs me that it was noticed for the 
first and only time in 1876. On the other hand, Mr. B. Pullen, of 
Centralia, a well known member of the State Board of Agriculture, 
writes me in a recent letter: ‘The strawberry leaf-roller is not 
new to us here, but it has never been very destructive, and its 
presence in a field this year does not necessarily insure an increased 
number next. I have seen more or less of them for ten years past. 
Have known them to be quite numerous in places one year, and 
the next so few as scarcely to attract attention.” I regret to be 
obliged to add that observations and collections made during the 
past summer in Southern Illinois, show that it has extended its 
ravages to that section in a way to indicate that it meets there with 
no climatic check. It was quite abundant, although not destructive, 
in a field of Mr. Earle’s, near Anna, in Union county; and in 
August was discovered to have seriously damaged a field belonging 
to Mr. Condit, at Centralia. It is evident, therefore, that straw- 
berry growers throughout the State are liable to its attacks. 
LIFE HISTORY. 
According to the general account of the species by Walsh and 
Riley, ‘‘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, and become 
minute reddish brown moths during the fore part of July. After 
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 Sep- 
tember, and changing to pups, pass the winter in that state.” 
The species was known to them, however, only from the latitude 
of Northern Illinois. Our very scanty subsequent observations bear- 
ing upon the life history of the species in that region are consistent 
with the account of it given above, except that it has been noticed 
at Normal that a considerable number of the moths hibernate, 
appearing on the wing during the first warm days of. carly spring. 
These belong, of course, to the second brood. On the 20th of June 
of the present year, the larve were found rather abundant in fields 
near Normal, and several placed in breeding cages commenced to 
emerge as moths on the 380th of that month, the last transforma- 
tions occurring July 10th. From the brief account of the msect in 
the Sixth Report from this office, we learn that lving larve were 
received by Dr. Thomas, from Tazewell county, in Illinois, on the 
8th of November, and that his correspondents had noticed them on 
their plants as early as the last week in September. 
The data obtained from Southern Illinois during the past sum- 
mer, by collection and breeding, do not correspond to the current 
account of the life history of the species, and indicate the probable 
occurrence of another brood, in that latitude. On the first of July, 
the larve were found abundant in the fields, and a number of speci- 
mens sent to the Laboratory on the 9th of that month, were reared 
in breeding cages. Pupation was nearly but not quite complete by 
