1!>4 FIFTH REPORT OP THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
of Peoria.* Professor Riley adds that the eggs, hatched about the 
1st of July and last of June, had become moths by the 1st of /Vugust ; 
and then again those found September 1 must have been of a third 
brood, which winters over in the chrysalis. The eggs, according to 
Biley, are placed in clusters on the leaf. 
Miss Smith's paper gives quite a full account of the habits and rav- 
ages of this insect in her vicinity. This is the Tortri.r paludana of Rob- 
inson. It is attacked by Calosomn scrutator Fabr., Podisus spinosm 
Dall., also by Dlplodus luridus Stal, and by Pimpla conquisitor Hay. 
I. ami. — When full grown. .80 to .85 of an inch. Color dull brownish buff. Form 
subeylindrical, being flat below: tapers slightly posteriorly but not anteriorly. Dor- 
sum light. A subdorsal darker band, edged above and below with a black line, the 
upper one being thickest. Wrinkled transver«ely, one indenture especially in the 
middle of each segment. Thoracic segments somewhat largest. Head as wide as 
No. 1 and carried nearly horizontally. It is dark brown, mottled with white. 
Venter, feet, and legs of same color as subdorsal band. Covered with fine sparse 
hairs. This worm is not very active, but when touched wriggles and lets itself down 
by a thread. It is quite variable in the depth of shading, some being very light, 
while others are quite dark, and some even have a greenish tinge. (Riley's unpub- 
lished notes.) 
Moth.— Palpi reddish brown, short, the third joint extending beyond the head. 
Head and thorax reddish brown above. Anterior wings reddish brown, much 
clouded with fuscous beyond the middle. A dark brown patch on the middle of 
costa and a smaller one on the disk below it indicate the central fascia. A large 
dark brown subapical patch is continued as a broad fuscous shade to internal angle. 
Fringes pale. Posterior wings very dark, fuscous above; pale testaceous beneath, 
tinged with fuscous internally. Fringes pale testaceous. Abdomen fuscous above, 
pale testaceous beneath. Under surface of anterior wings entirely clouded with fus- 
cous, giving in some lights a purple reflection. Expanse, male, 20 mm ; female, 23 mm . 
(Robinson). 
270. Cenopis quercana (Fernald.) 
The caterpillar has been found by Professor Comstock feeding on the 
oak, and by Miss Murtfeldt on the cultivated cherry. 
Moth. — Thorax and fore wings dull rust-red. Basal patch, median and subapical 
bauds lighter in the males and inclining to yellowish on the costa, with strong green- 
ish reflections when seen in an oblique light, showing most strongly in the females. 
Expanse of wings, 14 to 16 mrc . (Fernald). 
271. Cenopis reticulatana (Clemens). 
Besides the oak the caterpillar is said by Miss Murtfeldt to feed on 
the osage orange, maple, persimmon, and pear. 
Moth. — Fore wings yellow, finely reticulated with orauge; costa at base tinged 
with purple. Central fascia purple, commencing in a spot on the costa before the 
middle and ending in the apex of a large triangular spot of the same hue ou the 
inner edge. The large purple costal spot throws out a line, which is forked just 
below it, one branch running obliquely inward to the triangular spot on the inner 
margin, the other outwardly to before the inner angle. Hind wings and fringes 
very pale yellow. Expanse of wings, 17 to 22 mm . (Robiuson). 
'Paper read before the Northern Horticultural Society at Franklin Grove, and 
published in the Prairie Farmer January 9, 1878. 
