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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



are slight, rather frail in appearance and 

 have two inner veins on primaries and 

 three on the secondaries. The antennae 

 in the male are pectinated. 



PYROMORPHA H. S. 



P. dimidiata H. S. Staten Island, VI, 

 (Ds), Lahaway, VI. The larva 

 feeds on dead oak leaves. 



ACOLOITHUS Clem. 



Fig. 229. — Harrisina americana; a, 1 

 b, pupa ; c, cocoon; d, e moths, 

 wings closed and open. 



A. falsarius Clem. Anglesea, V, 30, 



on flowers of beach plum (Lt), common on blossoms of wild cherry, and 

 beaten from oak shrubs in June (Sm) ; signs of larval work at Morris 

 Plains (Dyar). Food plants grape and Virginia creeper. 



HARRISINA Pack. 



H. americana Harr. Locally 

 common throughout the 

 State and injurious to 

 grape. In the Egg Har- 

 bor district the Clevenoor 

 is the favorite and is often 

 seriously harmed. The 

 moth flies in May, June 

 and July. The larvae feed 

 in colonies and are easily 

 reached in their young 

 stage by picking off j the 

 leaves first infested ; later 

 an arsenical spray will 

 prove effective. 



Fig. 230. — Grape leaf with larva; ol Harrisina americana 

 feeding in characteristic way. 



Family PSYCHIDiE. 



These are the " bag-worms " ; so called because the larvae make a sac or case 

 of leaves, chips and silk, in which they live, and which they carry about with 

 them. The male moths only are winged, the wings transparent or thinly 

 scaled, black, the body very hairy, abdomen long and slender, antennae pec- 

 tinated. The females are grub-like and lay their egg in the sac which they 

 constructed as a larva. 



