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wings is slightly bell-shaped. This is less apparent in the male than 
in the female. ‘lhe male measures 22-25 mm. (about one inch) 
across the expanded wings, and the female, 24-30 mm. 
This leaf-roller is well known in Illinois as an enemy of the apple, 
but I have not heard of it in this State in strawberry fields; 
although we have here a_ very similar species, abundant enough to 
threaten some injury, which will be next described. 
The periods of this species are such as to render it susceptible to 
the same treatment as that already found effective for the straw- 
berry leaf-roller proper.* 
THe Puary StRawperry LeEAr-Rouuer. 
(Caceecia obsoletana, Clem.) 
Order LeprpoprEerA. Family Tortricripm. 
From collections of leaf-rollers made by an assistant in strawberry 
fields in Union county, in Southern Illinois, last July, a number 
of moths were bred which had the general appearance of the oblique- 
banded leaf-roller (Cacawcia rosaceana), but differed especially in the 
form of the wings, which had scarcely a trace of the characteristic 
sinuosity of the front and outer margins of the latter species, and 
in the obsolete character of the oblique band of the front wings, 
here reduced to two brown spots, one on the costal, and the other 
on the internal margin of the wing. 
As these leaf-rollers were scarcely less abundant in some fields 
near Anna and Centralia than the Phoxopteris, it became a matter 
of importance to understand the species and its.life history, and I 
consequently submitted a pair of them to Prof. C. H. Fernald, 
for determination. From him I learned that the moths represented 
two nominal species, the male being Caca@cia obsoletana, and the 
female C. transiturana, forms which however he had already sur- 
mised to be actually males and females of one species.t 
My larve consisted of two lots, one collected the 9th of July, and 
the other the 81st of that month, from the same fields, near Anna. 
From each of these lots, both males and females emerged, all the 
males having the characters of obsoletana, and all the females of 
transiturana; a fact which at once demonstrated the identity of the 
two forms. Both species were originally described and published in 
the same work, at the same time; but as obsoletana occurs on an 
earlier page than transiturana, the former must be accepted as the 
specific name. 
The literature of this species relates wholly to the characters and 
classification of the imagos.{ The larva and its food plant have 
remained hitherto unknown. 
*From aremark made by Mr. Coquillett, in the article on this leaf-roller, cited above 
{p. 11,) itis clear that this species is subject to the deadly contagious disease of lepidop- 
terous larve known as ‘‘schlaffsucht.” 
+See Transactions American Entomological Society, Vol. X, p. 12, foot-note. 
tLoc. cit., p. 12, Nos. 37 and 38. 
