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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION 
BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
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A REVIEW OF THE INSECTICIDAL USES OF ROTENONE AND 
ROTENOIDS FROM DERRIS, LONCHOCARFUS (CUBE AND 
TIMBO), TEPHROSIA, AND RELATED PLANTS 
PART VII: LEPIDOPTERA 
By R. C. Roark, Division of Insecticide Investigations 
CONTENTS 
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Introduction 
Lepidoptera: 
Aegeriidae 2 
Amathusiidae ■ ~ 5 
Arctiidae — -- 5 
Blastobasidae 7 
Bombycidae 7 
Citheroniidae 11 
Coleophoridae — 12 
Cosmopterygidae 13 
Cossidae — — 13 
Crambidae 13 
Galleriidae — — 14 
Gelechiidae ~ — 14 
Geometridae 18 
Gracilariidae ■ 23 
Hesperiidae 23 
Hyponomeutidae 23 
Lasiocampidae 25 
Limacodidae — -- — 30 
Lymantriidae 31 
Lyonetiidae • 38 
—/The manuscript of this publication was read in the following re- 
search divisions of the Bureau and helpful suggestions were contributod: 
Fruit Insect Investigations, Truck Crop and Garden Insect Investigations, 
Cotton Insect Investigations, Insects Affecting Man and Animals, Control 
Investigations, Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations, and Insect 
Identification. The reviewers in these divisions were respective! . 
D. L. Van Dine, W. H. White, R. W. Harned, F. C. Bishopp, L. A. Hawkins, 
C M. Pa ckard and C. F. 17. Mousebeck and the specialists on Lepidoptera 
in his Division (Insect Identification). 
