672 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE DOGWOOD. 
Corntis florida. 
1. AntUpila eornifoliella Clem. 
Order LBP1DOPTBBA j family Tinkid I 
The larva lives in a blotch mine, from which it cuts out a case in which 
it pupates on the ground. 
The larva miues the leaves of Comus florida in September. It may 
possibly be a variation of nyssafoliella. The larvie of the insects are 
very like each other, but I do not know whether that of eornifoliella 
undergoes the same change of coloration after the last molting as that 
of nyssafoliella. Its mode of preparing for pupation is the same as 
the previous species, but whilst the individuals of nysnafolicUa on a 
single tree are almost innumerable, those of eornifoliella are not abun- 
dant. (Clemens.) 
Larva. — The head and shield dark brown; body nearly white, with seven minute 
black points along the dorsum, and eight on the central surface, somewhat larger 
and more distinct. 
Moth. — Head, face, labial palpi, and forefeet dark brown. Antennae dark brown ; 
basal joint somewhat ocherous. Forewings rather dull dark brown, with a coppery 
hue. Near the base is a rather narrow golden band, not constricted on the fold, and 
rather indistinct toward the costa, where it is somewhat sutfused with a coppery 
hue, and nearest the base on the inner margin. At the apical third of the wing is a 
small golden spot, and nearly opposite, on the inner margin, another of the same 
hue, with the hinder portion of the wing tinged with a bright reddish coppery hue, 
cilia dark grayish. Hind wings purplish brown ; cilia somewhat paler, with a cop- 
pery hue. (Clemens.) 
2. Coleophora cornella Walshingham. Lives in curiously shaped case 
on leaves of Comus pubescens, in California. 
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE BOX. 
Buxus sempervirens. 
1. THE EUROPEAN BOX PSYLLA. 
Psylla buxi Linn. 
While making some observations for the Bureau, Mr. Koebele found 
toward the end of May, in the garden of Mr. James Angus, near Xew 
York City, large numbers of a rlea-louse infesting box. The insects (at 
that time mostly larvae or pupae and a few imagos) thickly crowded the 
young growth of the plants, and the whole hedge showed at the first 
glance a sickly appearance, the tender shoots being more or less yel- 
lowish in color and evidently dying. In our breeding cages the imagos 
continued to develop throughout the mouth of June, but outdoors no 
further observation on the life-history of the insect could be made. 
The species proved to be identical with the European Box Psylla, 
