PINE TUBE-WORM. 791 
tricida? of North America, this common European species feeds in 
Europe on the beech, birch and oak (Heinemaun), and according to 
Walsh, is in this country an iuquiline in galls of C. saMcis-strobiloirfes. 
It could not have been mixed with other Tortricids in my breeding tin 
box, as it was the only Tortricid in the little box, hence I think there 
is no doubt but that it at least occasionally feeds on the white pine. 
The larv a is very characteristic and easily recognizable. 
Moth. — Cost** full near the base; slightly excavated before the falcate apex; outer 
margin full and rounded below the apex. Ground color flesh-red brown, with scat- 
tered leaden scales; a median white spot, beyond which are a numberof lead-colored 
scales; an oblique row of leaden scales goes from this spot to the costa at a point 
beyond the inner third of the costa, and the other to a point halfway between the 
costal end of the first line and the apex ; a few white scales on the first line. Hind 
wings lead-gray. Length of body 6 mrn ; expanse of wings 14 to 16 mm . 
124. The pine amorbia. 
Amorbia liumerosana Clemens. 
This leaf- rolling moth was bred from the white pine in Maine, the 
moth appearing in May. It is a large species of Tortricidce, the fore 
wings with the costal edge full. The head, thorax, and forewings are 
whitish ash, with dark specks, but with no distinct lines and markings. 
There are two whilish patches in the middle of the forewings, on each 
side of which are a few fine black specks ; in the middle of the outer 
fourth of the wing is a whitish patch. There is a marginal row of fine 
black points. The fringe is pale; the hind wings are pale gray slate 
color. Expanse of wing, 24 mm . The larva was not described. It has 
been bred from the benzoin bush and the poison ivy by Mr. L. W. 
Goodell. The species ranges from Canada and Maine to Pennsylvania. 
125. The pine tupe-builder. 
Tortrix politana Haworth. 
, Order Lepidoptera ; family Tortricid^e. 
Cutting off the ends of white pine needles, and spinning together a tube of the 
stumps, in September, and also to be met with probably early in summer, a pale-green 
leaf-roller, pupating late in September. 
About ten years ago I found, in September, on the young white pines 
in the grounds of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, at Amherst, 
Mass., numerous pretty tubes such as are figured in the adjoining en- 
gravin g. The larva, probably in August and early in September, gathers 
together about fifteen needles of the white pine, tying them into a bundle 
by silken threads ; then, usually eating off about one-third of the ends, 
forms a tube, within which the worm lives. Some full-grown larva? 
were found September 22 which had gathered the leaves together with- 
out cutting them off, the tube extending the whole length of the leaves. 
It is possible that the larvae of the first brood early in summer cut off 
the ends of the tube, while the approach of cold late in September pre- 
