2 BULLETIX 261, U. S. DEPAETMEXT OF AGEICULTUBE. 
HISTORY. 
This species was first described by Walker, in 1863, under the 
nanie of Nephopteryx semifuneralis. In 1881 Zeller redescribed and 
figured it as Euzophera impleieUa. In 1887 Hulst described the 
species as Stenoptycha paZluZetta. In 1889 we find the first published 
reference to the immature stages of this insect; S. A. Forbes, hi his 
report for that year, described the larvae as injuring Chinese plum 
(Prunus simoni) hi Illinois. Forbes gave it the coninion name of 
American plum borer. In 1891 D. S. Kelhcott reported it as injuring 
mountain ash in Ohio, and in 1898 Otto Lugger included it hi a fist 
of '"'Butterflies and Moths Injurious to our Fruit Producing Plants." 
In 1901 E. D. Sanderson reported it as injuring apple and Kieffer 
pear in Delaware, giving a few notes on its probable life history in 
that locality and renaming it the ' 'fruit-tree bark borer." Slinger- 
land and Crosby have given a short account of this borer hi their 
recent " Manual of Fruit Insects." 
While Forbes's report is the- first published reference to the feeding 
habits of the larvse of this insect, we find in the unpublished notes of 
the Bureau of Entomology, February 2, 1879, the following note: 
"Received from E. A. Schwarz, Jackson, Miss., one cocoon found 
under bark on fence around cotton field. The moth issued and 
proves to be either 21. distinctella :-, or one that comes very near to it." 
This specimen was later determined by H. G. Dyar to be Euzophera 
semifuneralis Walk. Again, May 14, 1879, in the notes of the Bureau of 
Entomology, Tlieo. Pergande records finding a cocoon on peach and 
rearing a moth belonging to the Pyralidse, which he names rather 
doubtfully Acrobasis sp. A later determination by Dyar proved 
this also to be Euzophera semifuneralis. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Dyar gives the distribution of this borer as •'United States.' ' 
Zeller described the species in 18S1 from four specimens from Colom- 
bia, South America, one of which was taken at Mariquita on August 
10 and the other at Honda the last of April. Hulst notes that his 
description was based on specimens from New York, Utah, and Wash- 
ington. In the United States, specimens in the collection of the 
United States National Museum, and" the correspondence, notes, and 
collection of the Bureau of Entomology, as well as the literature 
available, indicate that the insect occurs in the following States: 
Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, 
Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, 
New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Vir- 
ginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia. 
