668 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
Female— Length of body, 1.0""" ; length of wing, 8.3 BUB ; length of antenna, 1.3 mm . 
Antenna 14-jointed (2 x 12); joints pediceled, subeyliudrical, and subequal, each 
joint ffith two whorls of short an<l delicate hairs, a whorl at each end of the joint, 
the hairs of the posterior whorl being somewhat longer than those of the anterior. 
Color as with t ho male, ;i Little more dusky perhaps on the thorax. In other respects, 
exoepl in generative organa, resembles the male. 
Described from lour male and nine female specimens. (Comstock Ag. Rt., 1880.) 
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE WITCH HAZEL. 
Hamamelis virginica. 
1. Gracilaria superbifrontdla Clem. 
The larva (says Cletneus) may be found in the middle of July, in 
cones, on the leaves o I Ha ma melis virginica (witch hazel), and the imago 
appears early in August. This insect must approach very closely the 
European swederella. 
Larva. — The head of the larva is pale green ; body pale green, darker-colored by 
the ingesta, with the tenth ring whitish, and the cervical shield pale brown. 
Moth. — Labial palpi yellow, tipped with brownish. Autenine dull yellow, with 
very faint brownish rings. Head stramineous, tinged with reddish-violet on the fore- 
head. Thorax stramineous, with teguiaj externally striped with reddish-violet. 
Forewings beautiful reddish-violet, with a shining stramineous patch on the inner 
margin at the base, and a large costal triangle of the same hue, reaching almost 
across the wing, and extending along the costa from the basal third, nearly to the 
apex. Hind wings blackish gray ; cilia dark fuscous. (Clemens.) 
2. Catastega hamameliella Clem. 
The larva constructs a little, short tube of frass along the midrib of 
the leaf of witch hazel, Hamamelis virginica, during the latter part of 
September. The tube is begun in the angle made by a vein and the 
midrib, and the triangular space between them is covered with a thin 
web of silk, having beneath it the tube. (Clemens.) 
Larva. — The larva is nearly cylindrical, sleuder, with the head pointed. It is of a 
uniform, rather pale-green color. (Clemens.) 
The following insects also occur on the witch hazel : 
3. Halesidota caryw (Harris). Beutenmiiller (Ent. Amer., vi, p. 16). 
4. Eccopsis footiana Feruald. Kellicott, Bull. Buffalo Soc, iv, 18S2. 
Fernald's Oat. Tortricidae, p. 36. 
5. Sericoris niveiguttana Grote. Kellicott, Bull. Buffalo Soc, iv, 1882. 
Fernald's Cat. Tortricidre, p. 36. 
6. Semasia argutana (Clem.) Clemens in Fernald's Cat. Tortricidre. 
p. 45. 
