152 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, ’08 
them were almost full fed; they became more abundant by 
the middle of the month. A slight cocoon is formed in the 
flower from the debris loosely held together with silk, and 
from this the brown pupa pushes its way out some hours be- 
fore the emergence of the moth. Of those under observation, 
the first appeared May twenty-third, though at that date many 
of the later larve had not pupated. The latest emergence 
noted was June thirteenth. 
From unripe ovaries of Sarracenia purpurea gathered near 
Katahdin Iron Works, Maine, later in the season (August), 
the same insect was bred, and Mr. Kearfott identifies it as 
Olethreutes daeckeana, a species which he described in 1907 
from a New Jersey locality where its food-plant was also 
Sarracenia purpurea, so it is evidently widely distributed and 
will probably be found wherever Sarracenia is abundant. 
Archips parallela Rob. 
Toward the end of May still another insect may be found 
attacking Sarracenia minor; this is the larva of a Tortricid,— 
a smooth, cylindrical caterpillar about seven-eighths of an 
inch in length, dull dark sage-green in color, studded with 
small white tubercles bearing short fine white hairs; the head 
and thoracic shield are yellowish-brown with black markings, 
and the feet black. 
This caterpillar seems to prefer the smaller open leaves of 
Sarracenia minor. It fills the upper portion of the tube with 
a white opaque web, through which it retreats in a tortuous 
passage when alarmed. In feeding it takes no care not to 
eat entirely through the leaf-wall, and the upper portion of 
the hood usually shows a ragged hole where the caterpillar 
has fed. A number of these larve of different ages were 
found in localities widely separated, so their occurrence in 
this food-plant was evidently not accidental. Of these, one 
fell a victim to the new leaf to which it was transferred,— 
evidence that this insect has not yet perfectly adapted itself 
to this dangerous food-plant. One larva on June third left 
the leaf in which it had been feeding, ensconced itself on the 
