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I have several times examined commercial clover seed and found 
some of it injured by this insect, but the inmates of the seeds always 
happened to be dead. There is a strong possibility, however, that new 
clover seed takes the living insect to the field. Such seed, if sown 
broadcast, would permit the adults to emerge; but if drilled in, would 
dispose of the chalcids, as they could scarcely make their way to the 
surface. 
Bruchophagus funebris How. 
1880. Howard, L. O.— Rep. [U. S.] Comm. Agr., 1879, p. 196. 
1896. Hopkins, A. D.— Bull. No. 6, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., 
p. 7Z. 
1898. Hopkins, A. D.— Bull. No. 17, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., 
• p. 45. 
1899. Pettit, R. ![.— Bull. No. 175, Mich. Agr. Exper. Sta., pp. 
366, 367. 
1904. Titus, E. S. G.— Bull. No. 44, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., 
pp. 77-80. 
1906. Webster. F. M.— Circ. No. 69, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., 
pp. 7-9. 
Clover Seed-caterpillar 
■Enarmonia interstinctana Clem. 
(Grapholitha inter stinctcma) 
In its ability to diminish the seed crop, this pest ranks with the 
seed-midge and the seed-chalcid. Attacking a clover head that is 
green or partly in bloom, the little caterpillar eats out a cavity in the 
head, destroying many of the unopened buds and some of the tender 
green seeds, and spoiling the head as a whole. When no young clover 
heads are at hand, the caterpillar feeds on tender green leaves at the 
crown of the plant. 
The adult is an inconspicuous little brown moth of the family 
Tortricidce, and may be recognized by means of its peculiar silvery 
markings. 
Distribution. — The published records show that this insect is pres- 
ent in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington 
(D. C), Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Michigan. It 
probably occurs in other states. In Illinois it is well established thru- 
out the state, holding its own every year, and becoming locally abun- 
dant now and then. 
Food Plants and Injiiries. — The chief food plant is red clover, but 
white clover is also affected, and we have reared the species from 
alsike. Lintner quoted a correspondent to the effect that mammoth 
clover was not touched by a certain insect which Lintner (Eleventh 
Report, p. 153) took to be the seed-caterpillar. The correspondent's let- 
ter evidently refers, however, not to this insect at all, but to the seed- 
chalcid. There appears to be no reason why mammoth clover should 
