IGICAL NEWS. 151 
hese larvee extend their burrows through the root-stocks, 
owing up new turrets from time to time as they follow the 
ing course of the interlaced roots. Pupation takes place 
wide part of the burrow, not far from the surface, pro- 
ee Coe nee = oe cocape of the moth 
figure, Plate VIII). The first pupa was noted Sep- 
sber twenty-second, though some not observed were evi 
aly a few days earlier; the moths commenced to emerge 
Detober sixteenth, the last emergence of eighteen being No- 
nber third. 
e unusually long larval period is presumably the effect 
ie long season in this southern locality, the insect being 
1 here as in the north. 
at ta serve tems ecimn 
nd in Sarracenia purpurea in New Jersey (see Can. Ent. 
¥, 91-94), in which plant they did not pupate in the bur- 
» Ror was the turret-building habit observed. Mr. Bird 
s compared the South Carolina specimens from flava 
ith his New Jersey specimens from purpurca, and finds them 
ie the examples bred from fava, as would be expected, 
being slightly larger. 
_ “larva of Exyra rolandiana has been noted as feeding 
- in the flowers and unripe ovaries of Sarracenia purpurea. 
it Summerville no Exyra larve were found in the flowers 
either Sarracenia flava or Sarracenia minor. The flowers 
tele which begtf ts appear toward the end of 
¥ il, are frequently destroyed by a small Tortrix caterpillar, 
th feeds among the petals and stamens and also burrows 
> and hollows out the green ovary, fastening the debris 
SRE Genter Aogether with silk. In these larva-infested flow- 
__ ers the umbrella-shaped style withers and the shrivelled petals 
_ Cling to the wreck of the flower instead of falling at the usual 
time. The lower figures on Plate VIII illustrate a healthy 
Siete after the fall OF the petals Sd an infested one. 
These larve were noted about May first, when a few of 
a 
