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Epizeuxis denticulaiis Harv. This species, kindly determined 

 provisionally as this form by Dr Dyar of the United States National 

 Museum, must have been unusually abundant in the vicinity of 

 Palenville, N. Y., ju;iging from the report sent by Mrs Hiland Hill 

 July 29, 1907. She states, in a communication written on that date, 

 that hundreds of these relatively unknown moths were upon the 

 walls of the kitchen and they were also very abundant about the 

 barn and other outbuildings. They were so numerous that con- 

 siderable apprehension was felt lest they might prove to be the 

 dreaded brown tail moth. It is very probable, considering that the 

 larva of the closely relate! E. lubricalis Geyer feeds upon 

 grass, that the caterpillar of this species may have similar habits, 

 though it is possible that it may subsist upon dried vegetation, as 

 has been recorded of E . a emu la Hiibn. The evidence at hand 

 would seem to favor the latter corxlusion, as the moths were ex- 

 ceedingly abundant in the barn and buildings where there was pre- 

 sumably a goodly supply of dried provender upon which the cater- 

 pillars could subsist. Should such prove to be the case, this species 

 must be classed with the much better known clover hay worm, 

 Hypsopygia costalis Fabr. as a species liable to injure 

 stored hay. This last named species is occasionally rather abundant 

 about barns in New York State, though it is rarely that the insect 

 becomes so numerous as to cause great injury. The moth under 

 discussion has a wing spread of about i to 1.2 inches. It is a vari- 

 able gray, white marked species closely related to E. 1 u b r i c a 1 i s 

 Geyer, from which it may be separated, according to Dr Smith, 

 by its dull, pale luteous ground color powdered wdth brown scales, 

 and the blackish transverse lines. It is distinguished frc^m the pale 

 fcrms of 1 u b r i c a 1 i s "by having the space between the median 

 and transverse posterior line dark filled toward the inner margin, 

 which gives the wing a quite characteristic appearance." 



Archips scrbiana Hiibn. This species, determined by Dr H. G. 

 Dyar, of the United States National Museum, by comparison with 

 specimens named by Lord Walsingham, was brought to Albany in 

 April 1906 on Japanese maples imported direct from Japan. The 

 young trees were kept in a greenhouse and as soon as it was learned 

 that they were infested, measures were taken for the destruction 

 of all the insects, and it is presumable that the species did not 

 succeed in establishing itself in this section of the world. As there 

 is danger of similar importations, this occurrence has been placed 

 on record and a description of the adult and larva prepared. This 



