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marked With black and hero and there dashed with reddish. Supra-anal plate 
email and obtusely pointed, and concealing the small dorsal spines. A dorsal inter- 
rupted dark stripe and lateral obscure, more or less dark lines. The body la 
• I in front of the middle by a curved blackish line, curving anteriorly and form- 
ing a conspicuous line, being oblique on the sides of the body. The slight hump is 
black, inclosing a white area in front. An oblique silvery line on each side of the first 
abdominal legs, and the lateral line is touched with silvery. 
The minor markings are too complicated to describe, but it mimics in appearance 
and color a twig of the fir. Length lf> mm . 
21. The BSD and yellow STRIPED pine span-worm. 
(Plate x, fig. 3; Plate xxxm, fig. 2, 2«-2/.) 
The larva, described on p. 784, also occurred on the fir on the grounds 
of Bowdoin College, Aug. 28-31, but I have been unable to carry it 
through its transformations. The figure on Plate x has been very 
poorly reproduced by the lithographer ; and fig. 2a, in Plate xxxm, 
represents the body as narrowing too much at the end. 
22. The fir tortrix. 
Tortrix packardiana Fernald.* 
This moth was bred from the fir on Peaks Island, Casco Bay, Maine, 
and sent to Professor Fernald for identification (see p. 849). 
23. Tortrix caterpillar. 
This caterpillar occurred on the fir June 26 to 28, at Brunswick, 
Maine. It began to pupate June 29, making a slight silk cocoon among 
the leaves at the end of the season's growth. Ichneumoned and died. 
Larva. — Body of the usual shape, full, cylindrical, and soft, with five pairs of ab- 
dominal legs. Head small, pale greenish amber, with a short black stripe on the 
side, much narrower than the prothorax which is narrower than the rest of the body. 
Length, 12 mm . 
24. The pine leaf-miner. 
Gelechia pinifoliella Chambers. 
The leaves of the fir were found at Brunswick, Me., to be affected 
by this miner much as in the pitch pine (p. 792), the terminal third of 
the leaf being paler than the rest. A dead pupa skin was found July 
15. 
25. The fir scale-insect. 
Lecanium sp. 
On the upper side of a fir leaf a single specimen of Lecanium was 
found at Brunswick, which was low, flat, broad, oval, blackish, almost 
as broad as the leaf. 
* This description first appeared in U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of 
Entomology, Bulletin No. 12, p. 19 
