426 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



PLUSIODONTA Gn. 



P. compressipalpis Gn. Staten Island, VIII (Ds), Newark, VII (Wdt), 

 Elizabeth, IX, 6 (Kp) : larva resembles bird excrement (Dyar), and is 

 found on Menispermum canadetise. 



HYPSOROPHA Hbn. 



H. hormos Hbn. Newark (Soc), Elizabeth, VIII, 1, Camden, VI, 6, VII, 26 

 (Kp), Anglesea, VIII, 21 (L,t). 



CIRRHOPHANUS Grt. 

 C. triangulifer Grt. Caldwell (Cr), Newark (Soc), Philadelphia (Lt). 



STIBADIUM Grt. 

 S. spumosum Grt. Has been recorded from New Jersey. 



PLAGIOMIMICUS Grt. 

 P. pitychromus Grt. Newark (Wdt). 



CHLORIDEA Westw. 



C. virescens Fabr. Staten Island, VIII, IX (Ds). 



HELIOTHIS Ochs. 



H. arranger Hbn. Throughout the State and throughout the season. There 

 are three broods and the larva is the tomato worm of early summer, 

 boring into the fruit, and the corn worm of late summer and fall, boring 

 into the ear. It also bores into pea pods and feeds on quite a variety of 

 other plants It winters as a pupa in corn-fields and the best method of 

 reducing its numbers is to fall-plow these. Applying insecticides on the 

 tomatoes is not practical. 



DERRIMA Wlk. 



D. Henrietta Grt. " New Jersey," without date or exact locality. 



ALARIA Westw. =RHODOPHORA Gn. 



A. florida Gn. Throughout the State in July, in the closed flowers of CEuo- 

 thera, in the buds and seed capsules of which the larva feeds. 



SCHINIA Hbn. =ANTHCECIA. Gn. 



S. trifascia Gn. Caldwell (Cr), New Brunswick, and probably quite generally 

 distributed. 



S. nundina Dru. Hopatcong (Pm), Andover, VIII (Kr), Staten Island, VIII 

 (Ds), Newark, VIII (Soc), Orange Mts. (Wdt), Anglesea, IX, 2 (Lv), 

 Jamesburg, on flowers of SpitcEa. 



