12 BULLETIN 363, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
In September of 1894 and again in November, 1895, specimens in 
the several stages, together with ears of corn in which the insect was 
living, were kindly sent the writer by Mr. E. A. Schwarz, who gathered 
them im the field at Baton Rouge, La., and Beeville, Tex., respec- 
tively. 
June 6, 1909, Mr. D. K. McMillan sent some of this species feeding 
in the seed-heads of sorghum from Kingsville, Tex. About the same 
time he sent specimens of what he described as ‘‘ pink larve,’’ com- 
mon under the shuck on corn ears, from Santa Maria; Tex. Later he 
sent more material from Kingsville, Tex., from which six adults were 
found on June 25, three on July 10, one on July 12, and more on 
July 13, 16, and 26. On June 20 he found this species working in corn 
in the husk at Beeville, Tex. November 9 of the same year the larva 
was again found in the heads of sorghum. 
During 1912 specimens were received from Mr. M. M. High, Bureau 
of Entomology. On February 16 they were found working on corn. 
Seven living larve were placed in cornmeal and all died in two days. 
During 1913 this species was received in dasheens (Colocasia sp.) 
from Mr. R. A. Young, Brooksville, Fla. The adults issued Decem- 
ber 3 and continued to issue from the dry corms. 
HISTORY AND LITERATURE. 
Our early literature bearing on the biology of this moth, if we ex- 
cept line notices and brief mention,’ is contained in the accounts of 
Townend Glover. In his first two entomological reports (Glover, 
1855, 1856) its habits are described and the insect in its several stages 
figured. In the first article the species is treated under the name 
of “eran moth (Tinea?)”’; in the second as the “corn worm 
(Heliothes?).”” Afterwards in his Manuscript Notes from My 
Journal, or Entomological Index (Glover, 1877) the same writer 
refers to this species as Tinea granella, throwing the responsibility of 
its previous determination as “‘[Heliothes?”’ upon D. J. Blrowne]. He 
found it in the cornfields of South Carolina and Georgia in September 
and says: “It infests the cornfields, where it is sheltered by the 
husks, and burrows between the grains, upon which it feeds, some- 
what in the manner of the Angoumois moth, except that the kernels 
are more irregularly eaten,” and that ‘these worms also appear to 
attack corn out of the field as well as in.’ Beyond this statement 
the writer is not aware that the insect has ever been mentioned as 
occurring in the granary, but froin personal experience several years 
ago it was learned that it feeds upon the ripened corn and is per- 
fectly capable of living indoors and that it unquestionably does so. 
Whether it is possible for the species to breed ab ovo in stored, 1. e., 
1In the American Entomologist for May, 1880 (v. 3, p. 129), and again on page 121 of the appendix of 
the Fourth Report of the United States Entomological Commission, incidental mention is made of this 
species with the comment that, according to Chambers, it is a new species of Laverna. 
