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Lactista gibbosa. — Adults taten January 15, February 5 and 12, April 

 12, May 12 and 17, July 26, and November 13. It sometimes makes a 

 rattling noise while on the wing. 



Encoptoloplius sordidus. — Adults taken February 12 and November 13. 

 Several larv?e were taken November 13. 



(Edocara strangulata or Stirapleura decussatus. — Adults taken Febru- 

 ary 5 and November 13. 



Trimerotropis vinculata. — Adults taken May 12 and 17, June 6, Jul^^ 1 

 and 21. and November 13. It sometimes makes a rattling noise while 

 on the wing. 



(Edipoda venusta. — Adults seen June 6 for the first time in the sea-son ', 

 also seen July 26. 



Conozoa ivallula. — Adults taken July 1. 



Chirnerocephala 2)cicific€i.-'h?iYVSihsil1i grown, February 4 j adults taken 

 April 28. 



Thrmcus caUforniciis. — Adults taken only in early spring. — D. W. Co- 

 quillett. 



CHLORIDEA RHEXIA INJURING TOBACCO. 



We have not yet published the fact that during the summer of 1886 

 the wide-spread and polyphagous larva of this insect did considerable 



damage to tobacco crops in parts of Georgia 

 and Alabama. We deferred publication await- 

 ing further facts, but it seems desirable that 

 this note should* go upon record. The larviie 

 were first sent us July 10, by Hon. J. T. Hen- 

 derson, of Atlanta, with the information that 

 they were found upon the bud of the tobacco 

 plant. Specimens were also received from 

 J. S. Newman, of Auburn, Ala., and J. S. Barnwell, of Darieu, Ga. The 

 latter gentleman stated that in general the adult of this creature did 

 more damage to his tobacco plants than the large tobacco-worm. When 

 young and about a quarter of an inch in length it lives, according to this 

 gentleman, in the central stalk of young leaves and eats so many holes 

 in them that the tobacco is utterly unfit for market as " wrappers," even 

 if it is good for "fillers." As wrappers are so much more valuable in 

 the market he considered it a terrible blight on the industry in his 

 locality. 



So far as we know this insect has never before been recorded as feed- 

 ing upon Tobacco. Its commonest food-plant in the South is " Ground 

 Cherry" {Phyf^alls viscosa)^ and the other si)ecies of the same genus. The 

 larva feeds upon the little bolls of this plant. It also feeds upon other 

 wild Solauaceous plants, and we have found it upon Solanum seiglinge 

 in St. Louis. It has been received at the Department from South 

 Carolina feeding upon cultivated Geranium, and in Ohio it feeds upon a 

 Composite of the genus Ageratum. The probabilities are that in Georgia 



"Fig. 49. — Chloriclea rhexia 

 ural size (after Riley). 



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