Noctuidae 



Genus PLATHYPENA Grote 



Only one species of the genus is known to occur within our 

 territory. 



(i) Plathypena scabra Fabricius, Plate XLII, Fig. 14, $. 

 Syn. erectalis Guenee; palpalis Haworth; crassatus Haworth; obesalis 

 Stephens. 



Universally distributed through the United States and Canada 

 east of the Rocky Mountains. 



Genus HYPENA Schrank 



The genus is found in all parts of the globe. Three species 

 are known to be found in our territory. Of these we figure the 

 one which is commonest. 



(i) Hypena humuli Harris, Plate XLII, Fig. 12, 6" J Fig. 13, 

 ? , var. 



Syn. evanidalis Robinson ; germanalis Walker. 



This insect, the larva of 

 which does considerable 

 damage to the hop, is 

 widelydistributed overthe 

 whole of the United States 

 and Canada., It is some- 

 what variable in the shade 

 of the wings and the 

 amount of maculation 

 upon them. For an account 

 of the habits of the insect 

 and the best manner to 

 guard against the ravages 

 which the larva commits 

 the reader is referred to 

 the excellent article by Dr. 

 L. O. Howard of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture 

 in Washington upon insects injurious to the hop-vine, which 

 was published as the Seventh Bulletin of the New Series of 

 Bulletins issued by the Division of Entomology of the Department. 



Arm. Who was Samson's love, my dear Moth ? 

 Moth. A woman, master 



SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labor's Lost, 7, 2. 



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FIG. 1 78. Hypena humuli. a, egg; b, larva; 

 c, segment of do.; d, pupa; e, tip of do.; /, 

 adult, a, c, e, greatly enlarged. (After 

 Howard, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agric., New 

 Series, No. 7, p. 44.) 



