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June 9 as small olive-drab moths, determined by Prof. Fernald, of 

 Orono, Maine, as Eccopsls exolctum, Zeller — a species not heretofore 

 reported west of New York, and whose larval history was unknown. 

 Each segment of the larva bears one or two transverse rows of long 

 black hairs about half the length of the segment, each row contain- 

 ing five or six hairs. The head and cervical shield are also sparsely 

 hairy and the legs considerably so. The first spiracle, wholly within 

 the anterior segment, is conspicuous, dark brown ; the others minute 

 and pale. Head and cervical shield wholly unmarked except a faint 

 slender median line on the latter. Length .4 of an inch. 



The anterior wings of the imago are olive-gray, crossed by a median 

 shade of deep olive, and slightly deepening also towards the terminal 

 margin. The whole surface of the wing is finely irrorate with blackish 

 specks, arranged in the form of slender waved lines, of which there 

 are from twelve to fifteen on the length of the wing. An oblique 

 dusky shade extends from the posterior margin at the base of the 

 wing to the middle of the discal cell. A black apical spot repre- 

 sented by five whitish bands upon the costa, each divided by a 

 slender olive line, all these bands tending upward to a point on the 

 outer margin a little behind the apical spot. The basal half of 

 costa with alternating black and white spots, the former being the 

 plainer ends of the wavy lines already mentioned. Fringe concol- 

 orous with wings dusky at apex and on the middle of the outer 

 margin. Hind wings dusky, slightly bronzed ; fringe pale, dusky at 

 tip ; antennse brown ; palpi white beneath, dusky at the tip ; thorax 

 bronzed gray, plain ; legs black, ringed with pale. 



The same larva was found upon the gooseberry May 16, pupated 

 June 9, in leaf, and emerged on the 16th of that month. 



