THE LARGER CANNA LEAF-ROLLER. 



and afterwards presumably taken away where they would not have 

 had an opportunit}' to transform am' more than they would have had 

 under the conditions previously mentioned. Several days later. 

 November 27, only one living pupa was found, and this evidenced 

 very little likelihood of ever recovering from the cold, showing con- 

 clusively that the species, unless it hai:)i:)ens to find some unusually 

 good place for hibernation, is " killed out " by the severe frosts of 

 practically every winter. These conditions may even exist farther 



southward than the 

 District of Columbia, 

 wdierever severe frosts 

 are encountered. 



DESCRIPTIVE. 



The huiterf]i. — T\\^ 

 parent of this singular 

 leaf-roller is a butterfly 

 belonging to the sub- 

 family I*amphiliiuo of 

 the family Hesperiid?e, 

 or skipiDers. It is one 

 of the larger skippers, 

 with a wing expanse of 

 between 1 and 1^ inches. 

 Tlie head is very broad, 

 with large ej'^es, and the 

 body is thick and heavy. 

 The ujDper surface of 

 the head, thorax, and a 

 portion of the abdomen 

 is thickly covered with 

 long olive hairs. The 

 wings are dark brown, 

 with white semitrans- 

 parent spots, arranged 

 as in figure 6, a, which 

 also shows the location of the masses of yellowish hairs, the contour 

 of the wings, and the structure of the antennae. The lower surface 

 of the wings is much paler brown, or fulvous, and more nearh'' 

 uniform in color. The head and body are still paler yellowish. 

 The adult is sometimes called the Brazilian skipper. 



The egg is illustrated by Scudder. It is subhemispherical in outline, 

 as vieAved from the side, and has a convex base, while the surface is 

 very irregularly reticulated, in most cases pentagonally. The broadest 





Pio. 4. — Section of canna leaf, showins edge rolled over 

 and fastened by larva of the larcrer canna leaf-roller. 

 Folded section taken the last of October, showing 

 larger size tlian in siiramor. (Original, i 



