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thoracic segment the outhne slopes rapidly downward to the front, 

 the head being wedge shaped, viewed laterally, and only about half 

 the depth of the second segment. The head is flat beneath, slightly 

 rounded above, about two-thirds as wide as the thorax ; antennne 

 and mouth parts very short ; eyes wanting. The color is brown both 

 above and beneath. First thoracic segment trapezoidal, viewed 

 laterally; a large brown chitinous prosternal area extending forward 

 to the mouth parts and laterally to the legs ; a brown patch upon 

 the dorsum of this segment. Small brown chitinous sternal areas 

 to the two succeeding thoracic segments, and a still smaller one on 

 the first abdominal. 



Legs very short, not longer than their respective segments ; pro- 

 legs fourteen in number, (counting the two anals), having the form 

 of low, flattened tubercles, each with a brown chitinous patch upon 

 the outer part. The pair of anal prolegs are nearly encircled by 

 two dark brown chitinous arcs. 



Segments of the body deeply separated ; sides with two lateral 

 rows of obscure tubercles ; spiracles brown, minute, except the first 

 on the middle of the first thoracic segment, which is larger and is 

 surrounded by a small brown chitinous patch. 



Described from a single specimen taken from the blackberry leaf. 



2. Lophodertis veliitinanus, "Walk. 



From leaf rollers of the blackberry, collected at Normal, June 30> 

 specimens of this species were obtained July 10 to 18. The food 

 plants heretofore recorded for it are oak, balsam fir, and maple. 



3. Pyrrhia amhra, Hiibn. 



Order Lepidoptera, Family Noctuid^. 



fPlateX. Fig. 1.^ 



Late in May and early in June we found repeatedly, feeding upon 

 leaves of blackberry at Normal, large whitish larvae, with a lemon- 

 yellow band upon the sides, and numerous conspicuous small black 

 tubercles upon each segment. Numbers of specimens were bred, re- 

 sulting in orange-brown moths of the above species. 



LITERATURE. 



This species, common to this country and to Europe, has been 

 repeatedly noticed in American entomological publications, most of 

 the references to it, however, being of a purely technical sort. 

 Under the name of Heliothis exprbnens, it is mentioned by Grote 

 and Kobinson in their descriptions of American Lepidoptera,* with 

 some remarks on its distribution and synonomy. 



In 187S, the authors catalogued it as Chariclea expriinensA 



* Transactions American Entomological Society, Vol. Ill, p. 180. 

 t Transactions American Entomological Society, Vol. IV, page 432. 



