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New Jersey: Smith in 1910 list says distributed well over 

 the state. Westville 1-28, 2-25 (Wenzel) ; Ft. Lee (A. M. N. H. ) 

 New Brunswick vi-28, vii-6, Red Bank 5-1, 4-20, Sea Isle City 

 5-24, 7-4, 7-12, Madison 17-April-98, Atco 6-1, Riverton 5-1, 

 Jamesburg 7-4 (J. B. Smith). 



Pennsylvania: Mt. Airy (J. B. Smith coll.) ; Phila. 11-28-05 

 (Am. Ent. Soc.) ; 21-Nov.-08, Hyslop at Marion (Webster 1. c.) 



Maryland: Somerset Hts., 1905 (Titus); Plummers Island; 

 Weverton, 20 May 'OS, C. N. Ainslie (Webster 1. a); Arundel 

 (Schwarz). 



District Columbia: Chevy Chase Circle 6-June-08, Caudell 

 & Ainslie (Webster 1. a); Washington, common (Webster). 



Virginia: Fortress Monroe (Schwarz). 



Michigan: Detroit (Schwarz) about 1875. 



Indiana: Vigo Co. (Blatchley in lilt.) 



Minnesota: reported by Schwarz (Webster 1. c.) 



Food Plants and Life History: Gyllenhal (1813) recorded it 

 from "Ononis arvenisi". Germar (1821) mentions that the 

 species lives on Dianthus and "in Europae graminosis. " Samou- 

 elle (1819) says it occurs in April and May in moist places on 

 banks of ponds. Brischke in 1871 reports it as feeding in north 

 Germany on lucerne and as occurring on "Carex filiformis". 

 L858 Matheiu had said it injured clover and occurred on T. 

 agraricum, Bargagli (1884) gave a short account of its feeding 

 habits on Trifolium pratense and notes its occurrence on various 

 Ononis especially spinosa, and in the heads of Buphthalmum 

 salicifolium. Kaltenbach (1874) reports Hoffman's observa- 

 tions on its habit of feeding in the flowers of Buphthalmum 

 salicifolium, the cocoon being spun in the chaff scales, and states 

 also that it feeds in the flower heads of Trifolium pratense. 

 Ferrant (1909) gives it as one of the three injurious Phytonomus 

 to lucern in Luxemburg. Kleine in 1910 gives no other food- 

 plants. 



The best accounts of the life history have been written by 

 Houghton (190S) and Webster (1909), but there are many points 

 still unknown. In America Fletcher first reported the species 

 from clover as injurious at Dalhousie N. B., in 1884, Harrington 

 the same year reported it as occurring at Ottawa in numbers 

 but not injurious. The eggs are laid in early spring (March, 

 April and May) the period probably extending over about six 

 weeks. They are generally deposited inside the leaf sheath 



