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of the plant other than the leaves. In our Divisional notes, however, 

 there is a record of the rearing of the moth, December 22, 1896, from 

 larvae found December 15 folding leaves and injuring buds of roses in 

 a hothouse in the District. 



PUBLISHED RECORDS. 



The first record that the writer finds of the food habits of this species 

 was published in 1881, a note by Mr. D. W. Coquillett of four lines, 

 descriptive of the larva and its food plant, wild rose, Rosa blanda 

 (Tenth Rept. State Entom. 111., 1881, p. 153). 



Mr. C. H. Fernald in his Catalogue of the Tortricidae of North 

 America, published in May of the following }^ear (Trans. Artier. Ent. 

 Soc, Vol. X, p. 31), mentions rose as a food plant. In the same } T ear, 

 1882, Mr. Coquillett, in comparing the larva of this species with that 

 of Cacceeia rosaceana Harr. (11th Rept. State Entom. of 111., p. 12), 

 states that they are utterly indistinguishable from each other in cer- 

 tain individuals, and makes the further remark that nimbatana was 

 reared by him only from Rosa blanda. "It binds three or more of 

 the terminal leaflets together for a habitation, and there appears to be 

 only one brood produced in one season." 



The next year the same writer gives a brief description of the larva in 

 Papilio (Vol. Ill, p. 101). Larvae " were taken the first week in June; 

 they pupated a fewda} r s later, and the imagos issued June 20 and 21." 



During the same year the late Dr. J. A. Lintner published a note 

 on injuries by this species to rose plants in greenhouses (Count. Gent. 

 Mar. 1, 1883, p. 169). This note was in response to inquiry from a 

 correspondent, "D. J. G.," Scarsdale, Westchester County, N. Y., 

 dated Februaiy 7 of that year. 



In his Fourth Report as Entomologist of the State of New York 

 (1888, pp. 213-215), Dr. Lintner gives a more extended account of 

 this species, with illustrations of the moth. 



DESCRIPTION AND DISTRIBUTION. 



The parent insect is a small moth of the family Tortricidae. It is 

 shown in the accompanying illustration (fig. 23, a). The general color 

 is brownish gray, the outer portion of the fore-wings and the under sur- 

 face of the hind-wings being lightest. The inner portion of the fore- 

 wings is dark brown in color, mottled with white, black, and light 

 purple spots, the prevailing pattern being about as indicated in the 

 figure. The wing expanse is about five-eighths of an inch (16 mm ), and 

 the length of the body is about half as long. 



This species has a rather wide distribution, as the following list of 

 localities, based for the most part on outdoor occurrences, shows: 



Maine; Massachusetts; Albany, Scarsdale, and elsewhere in New 

 York; Pennsylvania; District of Columbia; Woodstock and elsewhere 

 in Illinois; Wisconsin. 



