654 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
15. Boarmia pampinaria Gueu. Ibid. 
16. Heterogenea shurtleffii Pack. Ibid. 
17. Anisopteryx vernata Peck. Providence, May and June. 
18. Lanrna 1 . ylt'ditschiivella Chamb. Larva burrows iu the thorns. 
(Chambers.) 
19. Helice pallidovhrdla Chamb. 
20. Agnippe biscolorella Chamb. 
Order Coleoptera. 
21. Eburia i-geminata (Say). 
22. Spermophagus robinuB Sch. In seeds. 
INSECTS INJURING THE HORSE CHESTNUT, OR BUCKEYE. 
JEsculiu glabra. 
BORING IN THE TERMINAL TWIGS. 
1. Buckeye stem-borer. 
Steganoptycha cla\poleana Fernald. 
Order Lepidoptera ; family Tortricid.e. 
The following account is by Prof. E. W. Clay pole in Psyche (iii, p. 463) : 
Several years ago I noticed, in the early part of May, that many of the leaves of 
the Ohio buckeye, JEsculus glabra, drooped and withered very soon after they had 
unfolded from the bud. For two or three years these drooping leaves caught my 
attention. On gathering them I uniformly found a small hole in the leaf-stalk, from 
which a tunnel, sometimes 12 mra iu length, ran aloug the stalk. Above this hole the 
leaf was dying, below it the stalk was still alive. In some few instances I found in 
the tunnel a small yellowish caterpillar, evidently the author of the mischief. 
Wherever the hole in the stalk was closed with droppings the caterpillar was present, 
but whenever the hole was open the caterpillar was gone, leading to the inference 
that it had escaped through the opening. 
In the early part of May, usually about the 2d or 3d, I found the drooping leaves 
of the buckeye in great numbers. I gathered, May 8, a quantity of the leaves, and 
among them, a single specimen iu which the caterpillar was in the main stem of the 
young shoot and not in the leaf-stalk — the only instance of the kind that I have met 
with. Taking the specimens home, I placed them under a bell glass in order to 
determine the first point in doubt, the destination of the caterpillars after leaving 
the leaf-stalk. Two days afterwards, on May 10, I found that the leaf stalks were all 
empty, and the caterpillars hidden in the faded leaf at the top of the stem, in which 
they had previously burrowed. On May 15, five days later, the caterpillars were 
still in the dead leaves, and I went to the trees to try and find some more specimens, 
but was unsuccessful. However, on May 21, I found a few rolled-up leaves contain- 
ing caterpillars, brought them home, and placed them with the others. 
On May 23, the surviving caterpillars were still feeding, but there were many dead 
ones. 
On May 25 I found the first chrysalis among the leaves. It was light red in color, 
with eight rings on the abdomen. The rolled-up leaf was lined inside with silk. 
These facts show nothing in any way peculiar, and the same description would apply 
to thousands of other chrysalids. 
