THE RED-BANDED LEAF-ROLLER. 



THE EGG. 



The eggs resemble those of other leaf-rolling species of Tortri- 

 cidae. They are much flattened to the surface upon which they are 

 deposited, and to which they tightly adhere, are scale-like in appear- 

 ance, and overlap, are very pale dull-yellowish in color, the surface 

 finely granulate and moderately shining. The length is about 0.8 

 mm. to 0.85 mm. (0.03 inch) and the width 0.7 mm. 



THE LARVA. 



The larva is shown in figure 1, c. It suggests at first glance 

 Epagoge sulfureana Clem., with which it agrees in many respects. It 

 is, however, larger and readily distinguishable by the lighter and 

 more nearly uniform color of the head and thoracic plate; the head 

 is perceptibly yellowish or light brownish in life but the plate 

 can scarcely be distinguished from the general color of the body. 

 The two lobes are 

 closely joined at 

 the middle, being 

 separated by a very 

 n arro w strip of 

 lighter color. The 

 two lateral pilifer- 

 ous spots below the 

 thoracic plate are 

 pale. In Diehelia, 

 on the other hand, 

 the head and tho- 

 racic plates and lat- 

 eral thoracic spots 

 are a decided 

 brown, the latter well chitinized and with a darker posterior 

 margin. 



The form is elongate cylindrical, about 8 or 9 times as long as wide 

 when extended. The piliferous tubercles are larger and more promi- 

 nent, but in their arrangement as well as in the vestiture itself they 

 are very like Epagoge. 



The entire surface of the body except the head is in life a rather 

 pale grass-green much mixed with yellow, the dorsal surface being a 

 little lighter and the head less greenish and tinged lightly with 

 brown. In alcohol the dorsal surface, including head and thorax, 

 becomes pale yellow, except at the sutures, where the remaining white 

 color of the body is visible. Partially grown larvae (8 mm. long) 

 are uniform pale green. 



The thoracic legs are just perceptibly darker, as a rule, than the 

 abdomen, and the apices of the tarsi are infuscated. 



Fig 



-Red-banded leaf-roller (Eulia velatinana) : a. Fe- 

 male moth ; b, moth with wings folded at rest ; c, larva, 

 dorsal view ; d, pupa, lateral view ; e, tip of abdomen of 

 pupa, showing abdominal hooks, a-d, About three times 

 natural size ; e, more enlarged. 



