192 FIFTH UKPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSI^*. 
the hut- sendi off ■ spar to the apex. ba1 before reaching the apex ■ spur is sent to 
rieo a 3-forked line to the outer edge of the wing. Hind fringe, abdomen 
and leg! almost white. Kxpanse of wings, SO - *. | Identified by Prof. Fernald.) 
Tort r\x Jim x-uimm Kobinsoii. 
The habits of another leaf-roller have been observed and related by 
Miss Emma A. Smith in Thomas' second report on the injurious insectfl 
of Illinois (p. 114). It injures the black, red, burr, white, and pin oaks. 
The species has been found io Texas as well as Illinois. 
Moth. —Palpi, head and thorax pale ocherous. Anterior wings shining pale yellow, 
almost entirely covered with pale olivaceous scales, n that the yellow ground color 
is only evident jnel below costa at base, in two small costal spots at and beyond the 
middle, and in a similar elongate spot on the disk below the two last mentioned. 
Th.re are three brown dots on the costa near the apex, which is also tinged with 
brown. Posterior wings fuscous above, tinged apically with ferruginous : beneath 
tinged with fuscous internally, pale testaceous beyond. Fringes whitish. Under 
surface of anterior wings fuscous except the costa, which is pale testaceous. Ex- 
panse, male, *20 mm . (Robinson.) 
969. THK V-MAKKED CACCECIA. 
Caccecia argyrospila Walker. 
The moth of this species is not uncommon, entering our houses at 
night during July in Maine and Massachusetts. My specimens have 
been kindly determined by Prof. C. H. Fernald. 
This widespread species was first described in this country by Mr. C. 
T. Robinson, in 1869, under the name of Tortrix furrana ; at nearly 
the same time or soon after I described it in the Massachusetts Agricult- 
ural Report for 1870 under the name of the V marked Tortrix (T. v-sig- 
natana), and remarked that Mr. F. W. Putnam had raised it in abun- 
dance from the cherry. In his account of this species Lord Walsingham* 
remarks that in California it occurred near San Fraucisco, May 19, 
1871. u The species also occurred about Mendocino in the middle of 
June, and as far north as Mount Shasta in August. One specimen 
emerged on the 21st of June from a pupa found a few days previously 
between united leaves of JEsculus californica (Nutt.), the Californian 
horse-chestnut. 
In his Synonymical Catalogue of the Described Tortrieida\ Prof. C. 
H. Fernald states : 
Professor Riley wrote me that he bred it on rose, apple, hickory, oak, soft maple, 
elm, and wild cherry. 
It thus appears to be a general feeder on our shade trees, living be- 
tween the united leaves. It ranges from Maine, where it is common, 
to Georgia, Texas, and Missouri, while it is not uncommon on the 
Pacific coast. 
* Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of 
the British Museum, part iv. London, 1879, p. '.'. 
