PACKARD.] EED-BANDED CRANBERRY TORTRIX. 523 



brown linear band, the upper part of the S terminating on the top of 

 the occiput, the line being most distinct on the side of the head. The 

 ocelli are black. It is .27 of an inch in length. 



Mr. Trouvelot, who made the admirable drawings here engraved^ 

 wrote me as follows regarding its habits : "Like the larvse of the ITes- 

 peridce, as in Endamus and Tityrus, this cranberry- worm sends oft' the 

 excrement to some distance when it defecates. When it had built an 

 imperfect cocoon, it was very careful to remove the pellets of excrement 

 in it, by taking them with the mandibles and carrying them out." 



The pupa is brown, rather slenderer than usual, with the vertex of 

 the head prolonged into a large tubercle, surmounted by a round knob, 

 which is rough, while the tubercle below is smooth; there is an angular 

 projection on each side of the base of the tubercle, forming a shoulder 

 to it. The wing-covers reach to the end of the third abdominal ring, 

 while the antennae reach to the end of the second pair of feet, which 

 are parallel to the end of the second abdominal ring. There are two 

 rows of teeth on the upper side of the abdominal rings; they are obsolete 

 beneath, the posterior row being indicated by two remote minute tuber- 

 cles. Length .25 of an inch. 



The moth is rather undersized, with yellow wings, without any decided 

 markings, but mottled with deep ochreous. It expands one-half of an 

 inch. 



The Eed -banded Cranberry Tortrix {Tortrix incertana). — This 

 Tortrix, described by Dr. Clemens under the name of Tortrix incertana, 

 was originally sent to Mr. Sanborn by Miss Guild, of Walpole, Mass., 

 where its larva is called the " cranberry-worm." According to the late 

 Mr. C. T. Eobinson, it is found in Texas, and northward to Ohio and 

 Pennsylvania, as well as Massachusetts. 



The body and fore wings are deep reddish-brown. The palpi are 

 prominent, projecting farther than usual in front of the head. The head 

 and thorax are ochreousbrown, with a large tuft of red hairs on the 

 hinder margin of the thorax. The fore wings are reddish-brown, and 

 at the base clear light reddish-brown, bounded behind by a curved broad 

 dark-brown band, which terminates just below the median vein; be- 

 tween this and the broad brown-red band, and situated on the inner 

 edge of the ring, is a dull-silvery equilaterally-triaugular spot. From 

 the middle of the costa runs to the outer angle of the wing a broad dull- 

 red band, one-half as wide as the ring, and suddenly narrowing on the 

 costa. Beyond is a narrow hemispherical dark-red costal spot. Beyond 

 the broad band the outer edge of the ring is clear silvery, except an 

 oval brown spot. The fringe is reddish, silvery on the inner margin. 

 The hind wings are pale, smoky, concolorous with the under side of the 

 fore wings, while the under side of the hind wings is whitish. It ex- 

 pands .70 to .80 of an inch. 



In the pupa the segments of the abdomen are divided by deep 

 sutures, the edge being angulated, and with two dorsal rows of unusually 

 small spines. The tip is prolonged into a long point, nearly twice as 

 long as wide, and giving rise to three pairs of curved minute filaments. 

 Length, .34 of an inch. 



The Ked-striped Cranberry Worm. — This worm I observed, 

 September 20, to be common on the heads of cranberry-plants in Ham- 

 ilton, Mass., drawing the leaves together, eating off one side of a leaf^ 

 either wholly or in part, and eating the parenchyma, leaving the re- 

 verse side untouched. Twelve or fourteen terminal leaves are usually 

 thus eaten ; sometimes the terminal leaves are not touched, the cater- 

 pillar working up from below. The leaves are either drawn together by 



