656 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
In the mean while Professor Fernald has referred the insect provisionally to the 
genua Steganopiyoha Stephens (lb34), under the name of S. claypoleana. 
In J'ajiilio (iii, 191) Professor Riley remarks: "Through the courtesy of Prof. E. W. 
Claypole we received this Bpring from Mrs. L. H. Lewis some larva- of the buckeye 
Bteni-borei noticed in November, L882, issue of the American XaturalLit (p. 914). and 
have obtained therefrom a Dumber of perfect moths." The reference by Professor 
Fernald, he adds, to Steyanoptycha is evidetly correct. He then states: "None of 
the larva- we received were boring in the leaf-stem, but rolled themselves up in the 
unci) leaves upon which they fed. It is doubtless more of a blossom and leaf feeder 
than a stem-borer. The larvte were feeding during the first half of May, and the 
moths issued during the first week in June." 
Moth.— The general resemblance of some of the specimens to others of Proteoteras 
aswulana is great, but with the perfect specimens the differences upon close inspec- 
tion become quite marked. S. claypoleana lacks the notch in the posterior borders 
of the fore wings, the tufts of raised scales on the disk of the same, aud the peculiar 
tufts or pencils of hairs on the upper surface of the hind wings in the male, between 
the margin and the costal vein. It is a shorter, broader-winged species ; the ocellate 
spot is less distinctly relieved, the median oblique band more brokeu, the basal-costal 
portion paler and contrasted along the median vein with a darker shade, which may 
be almost black, and which broadeus posteriorly till near the middle of the wiug, 
where it is abruptly relieved by a pale space obliquing basally. By these characters 
the species is easily distinguished from cesculana, and it is withal a grayer species 
with the pale and dark shades more highly and abruptly contrasted. (Riley /. c.) 
2. Proteoteras cesculana Riley. 
Professor Riley's account of tbis worm is to be found in the Transac- 
tions of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences, iv, p. 321. He bred it from 
larvae boring in the tender terminal twigs of the buckeye and maple in 
Missouri. 
AFFECTING THE LEAVES. 
3. Apatela hamamelis. 
According to Mr. R. Thaxter (Psyche, ii, p. 35) this species lives upon 
the horse-chestnut, but he gives no description of the caterpillar. 
4. Tortricid larva. 
Several tortricid larvae occurred on the leaves of the horse-chestnut 
at Salem, Mass., August 20 to 27, of which the following is a brief 
description : 
Larva. — Pale reddish brown, curiously mottled with pale green, forming much in- 
terrupted, very irregularly edged brown lines. Beneath grass-green. Head greenish, 
irregularly speckled with brown. A dark green dorsal line. It spun a cocoon of silk, 
with very fine bits of leaves woven in. 
The following also prey on the buckeye: 
Order Lepidoptera. 
5. Orgyia leucostigma (Abb. and Sm.) Riley (MS. notes). 
6. Caccecia argyrospila Walker. California on JEsculus californica. (See 
p. 192.) 
7. Sericoris inscrutana Clem. Claypole. (Fernald's Cat. Tortricidae, p. 
35.) 
8. Lithocolletis guttifinitclla Clem. Var. (vseuliseUa Chamb. Larva in a 
flat, blotch mine in the upper surface of the leaves. (Chambers.) 
