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and female, is given by Eobinson in Volume II, of the Transactions 

 of the American Entomological Society, under the same specific 

 name. 



As an injurious insect it is mentioned by Dr. Packard in the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Eeport for 1870, and in the Tenth Report 

 of the Geological and Greographical Survey of Colorado and Adja- 

 cent Territory, 1S76. By Miss Murtfeldt it is reported as injurious 

 to the rose, in the third volume of the American Entomologist 

 (1880), and by Prof, Lintner as a clover insect in the Annual 

 Eeport of the New York Agricultural Society for the same year. 



In all the foregoing articles except the first, this species is treated 

 under Clemens' specific name, but in J^'ernald's Catalogue of the 

 Tortricidse of North America, (18S2), this is reduced to a synonym 

 of Walker's triferanus. The larva was not distinguished in our 

 breeding cages from that of the preceding species (Dichelia sul- 

 pJmreana), consequently I am unable to give a detailed description 

 of it. Clemens' description of the imago is as follows : 



Palpi ochreous or brownish ochreous except the minute third 

 joint which is blackish. Head and thorax ochreous or brownish 

 ochreous. 



Anterior wings pure pale reddish brown within the central fascia, 

 except on internal margin, which is broadly covered at base with 

 blackish brown scales forming a rather prominent irregular spot 

 followed by an aggregation of intermediate pale ochreous and black- 

 ish scales to the fascia. Central fascia broad, distinctly dark brown, 

 sometimes reddish brown. The sub-apical costal spot is dark brown 

 and separated from tiie central fascia by a reddish brown shade. 

 The remaining outer portion of the wing pale ochreous except a 

 testaceous brown spot above the anal angle. Fringes dark ochreous. 



Posterior wings fuscous above, testaceous beneath. Fringes pale 

 testaceous, much clouded centrally with dark fuscous. 



Expanse, male 15, female 19 mm." 



This species has been collected from Maine and New York to 

 Illinois and Texas, and has been found feeding on the cranberry, 

 elm, soft maple, oak, apple, rose, beans, Gnaphallum iiolycephalum, 

 clover, strawberry, and corn. 



Our specimens, collected on May 29, emerged June 30. 



4. The Common Lady Bug. 

 (H'qypodamla maculata, DeG.) 



Order Coleoptera. Family Coccinell,id.e. 



There are a thousand things in the ex^Derience of every naturalist 

 to show that the adjustments of Nature are rarely exact. 



Even the best of our zoological friends occasionally turn against 

 us. The most insectivorous of birds fails to discriminate in its 

 captures between the enemies and the friends of man, and the re- 



