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Red-banded leaf roller 



£?i/ia frifcraiia Walk. 



A small, light green, brown-headed caterpillar feeds in early June on the foliage of a 

 considerable number of trees. 



The larva of this red-banded leaf roller is a general feeder and has 

 been recorded as depredating on oak, elm, apple, rosebushes, soft maple, 

 cranberry and a number of herbaceous plants including some field and gar- 

 den crops. Professor Slingerland records rearing a parasite, Urogaster 

 canarsiae Ashm., from this species. 



Tortrix albicomana Clem. 

 The larva of this species has been recorded on oak, rose and Aqui- 

 legia canadensis. The parent insect is a delicate moth having a wing 

 spread of about 5/8 inch. The fore wings are pale brown diffusely marked 

 with sulfur yellow. The hind wings are silvery gray. 



Oak leaf roller 



Tortrix qicercifoliana Fitch 



A grass-green larva about ^ inch long occurs during July in folded oak leaves. 



This species, according to Dr Fitch, may be found within oak leaves 



which are curved upward and drawn slightly together by silken threads. It 



is a rather slender grass-green leaf roller, which pupates in the end of the 



leaf, the moth appearing in New York about the first of July. 



White-blotch oak leaf miner 



LitJiocoUctcs liaiiiadrycUa Clem. 



Whitish, blotchlike mines on the upper surface of oak leaves, contain minute, footless, 

 brownish and yellow larvae. 



This species is one of our common leaf miners ranging from New York 

 to Washington. Occasionally it is exceedingly abundant, particularly 

 toward the end of the season, and the writer has taken oak leaves in Buffalo 

 park, which were very seriously mined by this insect. Professor Comstock 



