2 BULLETIN 609, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
HISTORY, DISTRIBUTION, AND SYNONYMY. 
The only published record regarding injury by this species ap- 
peared in 1915, when the writer mentioned the occurrence of the 
larva on sweet potato in Porto Rico (6). 1 It was described first as 
Fig. 1. — The sweet-potato leaf-folder (Pilocrocis tripunctata) : a, Moth; b, egg; c, early 
stage of larva, from side ; d, ventral view of larva ; e, side view of pupa. All enlarged ; 
b, highly magnified. (Original.) 
Phalaena tripunctata by Fabricius in 1794 from material from the 
Central American Islands ( 1 ) . Guenee recorded it ( as Botys cubanalis 
Gn.) from Cuba (2), and Dyar listed it from Florida, Texas, and 
the West Indies (5). 
Specimens from the following-named localities and now in the 
National Museum have been identified by Mr. August Busck: Ker- 
ville, Victoria, and San Antonio, Tex. ; Mexico ; Costa Rica ; Jamaica, 
Cuba, and Grenada, West Indies. The addition of Baton Rouge, La., 1 
and Brownsville, Tex., completes the list of known localities where 1 
the species occurs. 
1 Figures in parentheses refer to "Literature cited," p. 12. 
