l6o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, '15 



Three male and seven female specimens, captured by me 

 at Yumoto, Nikko, on July 29, 19 14, are in my collection. 



In studying these new species I had occasion to examine 

 rather minutely the anal parts of all the Japanese forms of 

 which I possessed adequate material, including all the 

 described species excepting 5*. jesoensis Okamoto, of which 

 only a single female specimen (type) is known. I have given 

 here outlines of the ventral aspects of the appendages of the 

 new species just described, together with those of other 

 known species, as these are of considerable value in deter- 

 mination of the species. 



Life History of Mencsta albaciliella Chambers (Lep.)» 



By Annette F. Braun, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Strobisia albaciliaeella Cham., Can. Ent., X, yy, 1878; 



Menesta albaciliaeella Busck, Proc. U. S. N. M., XXV, 903, 1903; 



Dyar, List N. A, Lep., No. 5652, 1902. 



The fact that the imagos of this species are always found 

 in open woods or fields amongst patches of blackberries, and 

 usually resting on the upper side of the leaves in the sun, 

 pointed to the probability of blackberry for the food plant. A 

 search for the larvae several weeks later resulted successfully 

 and a number of moths were reared. 



The larval habits of this species resemble in general those 

 of the other two species of the genus, but show some interest- 

 ing and peculiar variations from the habits of either. 



On June 19, a number of larvae, some very young, others 

 about half grown were secured on leaves of the common 

 blackberry (Rubits villosus Ait.). The larva feeds on the 

 under surface of the leaf, beneath a web of silk which begins 

 in the angle between the midrib and a lateral vein and extends 

 along the midrib and outwardly between two lateral veins. 

 The accompanying figures will supplement the description to 

 follow. At first the larva skeletonizes a narrow portion of 

 leaf extending from the angle along a lateral vein, or rarely 

 from the angle along the midrib itself (a). In the basal part 



