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Cacoecia parellela Bob. Moths of this species, kindly identified 

 by Prof. C.H.Fernald, of the Massachusetts agricultural college,. 

 Amherst, were bred July 22 to 28 from larvae occurring singly 

 in nests composed of the webbed together terminal leaves of 

 sweet melilot shoots. The caterpillars were quite abundant 

 June 4 to 13 in one small patch of this common weed at West 

 Albany. This species is comparatively new to economic ento- 

 mology, having so far as known been noticed but twice. It was 

 bred by Dr J. B. Smith, 1 state entomologist of New Jersey, from 

 similar webs occurring on cranberry bushes, and he also ob- 

 served it on adjacent " loose strife." Larvae of apparently the 



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b ■ c 



Fig. 24 Cacoecia paralella: a moth, b caterpillar, c pupa, all much enlarged (original) 



same species were observed on cranberry near St Anthony park,. 

 Minn., by the late Dr Otto Lugger, 2 formerly state entomologist 

 of Minnesota. William Beutenmuller records it as feeding on 

 willow and aster. 3 



As the larvae differ somewhat in color, being characterized 

 as reddish with yellow heads by Dr Smith in his report for 1892,. 

 a description is given herewith. 



The full grown caterpillar is about $ inch long. Its head and 

 thoracic shield are amber colored. The latter is bordered later- 

 ally and posteriorly with irregular black markings and orna- 



X N. J. state agric. exp. sta. Rep't 1892. p. 440. 

 2 University of Minnesota. Ag.ric. exp. sta. Bui. 61. 

 3 Amer. mus. nat. hist. Bui. 4. 1892. p. 80. 



1898. p. 283. 



