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that less than 10 per cent of the stand of beans from which the infested 

 stalks were taken were left on the plat where infestation was noticed. 

 No larvae could be found at that time. 



September 25, Mr. Thomas I. Todd, Athens, Ga., sent specimens of 

 larvae, with the report that they feed in growing peanuts and had 

 destroyed in his vicinity a great many plants, sometimes as much as 

 half a crop. The specimens when received were partly in the shells of 

 the nearly mature nuts or tubers. 



September 27, Mr. H. M. Simons, Charleston, S. C, sent larvae, 

 together with specimens of the stalks of snap beans showing injury 

 done by them. The species was described as attacking beans at all 

 stages of growth, from the time that the plant appears above ground 

 until it comes in full bloom, and injury had been noticed even when 

 the plants were fully mature and the beans nearly ripe. 



October 2, Mr. Todd included a specimen of this larva in a sending 

 of various species found eating the leaves of turnip. The larva was 

 spun up at the side of the midrib of a leaf, being partially concealed 

 in a web, and overnight ate a very considerable quantity of the leaf. 

 Concerning its occurrence in peanuts, he wrote, in response to inquiry 

 as to whether the proximity of corn did not have something to do with 

 the attack, that the peanut patch where the larvae were first observed 

 was at least 200 yards from any corn, and that no corn had been planted 

 nearer the previous year. Inquiry of his neighbors brought out the 

 information that peanuts that were planted between each hill of corn 

 were very little more subject to attack than where the peanuts grew 

 distant from cornfields. Our correspondent also failed to find any 

 corn that was infested. Larger borers, however, were found in the 

 stalks, presumably either the corn ear-worm or the fall army worm. 



DESCRIPTIVE. 



The moth which produces this borer is a member of the family Phy- 

 citidae, and until recently was known in most works as Perwpdia Vigno- 

 sella, but is now referred to the genus Elasmopalpus of Blanchard. It 

 is an exceedingly variable species, but typical specimens resemble 

 rather closely the forms illustrated in figure 3. The moth measures 

 about three-fourths of an inch in wing expanse, the females being 

 usually larger. There is great difference in the two sexes, so great in 

 fact that in ordinarily well-marked specimens the sexes look like dis- 

 tinct species. Besides the differences in antennal structure, which can 

 at once be seen by comparison of the two figures {a representing the 

 male and b and hh the female), the male palpi are longer and thicker. 

 Pale yellow or ochreous is the prevailing color of the fore- wings of 

 the males in well-marked individuals. This is bordered out-wardly, 

 particularly at the ends, with dark purplish scales, forming a pattern 



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