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NOTES ON THE PRESENT DISTRIBUTION OF TWO 
INTRODUCED MOTHS. 
By Charles W. Johnson, 
Boston Society of Natural History. 
In June 1926, Mrs. John A. Walker, of Brookline, Mass., 
gave me some little, white, spindle shaped cocoons that she said 
were abundant in her flower garden. I put them in a jar and 
between June 29 and July 6 a number of little brown moths 
emerged. Through the kindness of Mr. August Busck of the 
Bureau of Entomology it was determined as Harpipteryx xylos - 
tella Linn. “A European species introduced within recent years. ” 
In referring to the “Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring 
States,” by William T. M. Forbes, I found the species recorded 
under Cerostoma xylostella L. with the following distribution, 
“Mass. Hyde Park (Frank Haimbach); Ithaca, N. Y.” Writing 
to Mr. Haimbach for the date of capture he says: “I collected 
Harpipteryx xylostella L. at Hyde Park, Mass., July 13, 1910. I 
found it along the Neponset River, flying around honeysuckle 
and took many specimens.” 
Mr. John V. Schaffner, Jr. has kindly given me the following 
data pertaining to this species, obtained by members of the 
Gypsy Moth Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass. On May 
31, 1918, larvae of H. xylostella were collected on honeysuckle 
(. Lonicera ), at Melrose, Mass., by C. W. Collins and R. T. Web- 
ber. The adults issued June 25 to July 5, and were determined 
by Mr. Carl Heinrich of the U. S. National Museum. Larva 
considered by Mr. Webber to be the same species, were taken on 
honeysuckle at Westerly, R. I., June 3, 1919, by H. J. Miles, 
Quarantine Inspector, and at Newport, N. H., June 4, 1919, by 
A. C. Ward, Quarantine Inspector. 
While at Salisbury Cove, Mt. Desert, Me., in August, 1926, 
Professor Ulric Dahlgren, showed me some moths he had cap- 
tured at his light in July. Among these were some that proved to 
be the European Eurrhypara urticata Linn. I remember seeing a 
moth of this species in a box that the late F. H. Mosher had at 
the Museum and Mr. Schaffner has given the following note per- 
