tations also have been found in Maine. It apparently prefers 
white spruce. 
The maple trumpet skeletonizer, E'pinotia aceriella (Clem.), oc- 
curs from southern Canada to North Carolina. Its hosts are 
principally red and sugar maples, but it has also been collected on 
hawthorn and beech. The adult is white, with dustings of gray or 
brown and has a wingspread of about 15 mm. Each larva spins a 
long trumpet-like tube of silk and frass on the underside of a leaf, 
causing the leaf to fold around it. It feeds from within this tube 
and skeletonizes the part of the leaf covered by the web, causing 
it to crumple. Damage is usually not very serious. E. solandriana 
(L.) feeds as a leaf roller on trembling aspen, white birch, and 
various other hardwoods. It is sometimes abundant in the North- 
east and Ontario. 
Epinotia nanana (Treit.), an introduced species first recorded 
in North America in Massachusetts in the early days of this cen- 
tury, now occurs from Maine to Ohio and Michigan and in On- 
tario, Quebec, and British Columbia, Canada. Its hosts are various 
species of spruce, especially white, Norway, and Colorado blue. 
The adult is dark, smoky brown and has a wingspread of about 
11 mm. The forewing has a rather blunt apex, which is black and 
diffused below by a white dash. A blackish band crosses from the 
middle of the costa to before the anal angle. There are five dis- 
tinct white spots on the costa of fresh specimens, and the wing is 
also flecked with whitish scales. 
Adults are present during June in Canada and deposit their 
eggs on the needles. Newly-hatched larvae attack the old needles, 
boring into them and hollowing them out completely. From the 
third instar on, they feed in about equal numbers on both old and 
new needles. A single larva may feed on several needles which it 
ties together with silk. The winter is spent in the larval stage 
inside a mined needle. In the spring, the larva moves to a new 
needle and continues its feeding. Before reaching maturity, it may 
destroy several other needles, all of which are tied together in 
bunchs appressed to the twig. Pupation occurs in silken cocoons 
in hollowed out needles, in old staminate flowers, on the bark, or 
in litter on the ground. There is one generation per year (183). 
Webs washed from the trees in the spring with a strong stream 
of water before the buds break has been suggested for control on 
ornamentals. 
Anchylopera plantanana Clemens occurs commonly on sycamore 
wherever it grows in this country. The adult is whitish with pale 
reddish forewings and has a wingspread of about 12 mm. Eggs 
are deposited along the midribs or larger veins on the undersur- 
face of leaves during early spring. Young larvae feed on both 
sides of the midrib, near the base, and spin fine, silken webs over 
the leaf surface. Older ones feed beneath these webs and skele- 
tonize the leaf. The winter is spent in the larval stage (190). 
The spruce seed moth, Laspeyresia youngana (Kft.), is rather 
widely distributed in the United States and Canada. It attacks the 
cones of white, red, black, Colorado, Sitka, and Engelmann 
spruces. The larvae make tortuous mines near the cone axis, de- 
stroying both scales and seeds. White spruce cones are especially 
susceptible. The adult is smoky brown with four cross bars of 
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