will wander about a few yards and soon die from exhaustion and 
want of food, while such parasites as are well developed or in the 
pupa state will mature and eventually fly off.” 
Two parasites are here recorded as preying upon the species; 
Tachina [Exovisfa^ phy cites, LeBaron, and Lininevia [Panchus^ 
fugitiva, Say, the first having been bred by Dr. LeBaron, and 
the last by Mr. Wier. Excellent descriptions of the three stages 
of the insect are also published and a variety ( nebulella ) of the 
moth is characterized. 
In a foot-note Dr. Riley states: “Phycita nebulo, Walsh, is 
Myelois indiginella , Zeller, as I am informed by the latter author, 
who has had occasion to examine specimens which I forwarded to 
him.” But though Zeller’s description of the insect was published 
twelve years before that of -"Walsh, and the identity of the tvo 
species is not questioned by Riley, he, together with many subse¬ 
quent writers, has retained Walsh’s name. 
A short account of the life history of the leaf crumpler was pub¬ 
lished by Prof. G. H. French in the seventh of the series of 
reports upon the insects of Illinois (pp. 249-250), in which, how¬ 
ever, nothing new was added to the existing knowledge concerning 
the species. 
During the year 1878 this insect attracted some attention be¬ 
cause of its injuries in the vicinity of Coldwater, Mich., where it 
was popularly called the leaf roller. Prof. A. J. Cook, by whom 
the facts were recorded (Trans. Mich. Pom. Soc. 18f8, p. 22), 
recommended the hand picking of the larval cases and the ap¬ 
plication of Paris green as the most practicable remedies. 
About this time the insect seems to have made its way into 
Georgia, if indeed it had not been there long before. In the 
“American Naturalist” for May, 1881, Dr. Riley notes the receipt of 
specimens of these larvae (which he calls Acrobasis nebulo ) from 
Bryan county, where they were reported to be doing serious dam¬ 
age. 
In Mr. Grote’s “New Check List of North American Moths,” pub¬ 
lished in 1882, Phycis indiginella , Zeller, is given as the preferred 
name of the species, nebulo, Walsh,_ being mentioned as a rejected 
synonym. The only variety given is juglandis, LeBaion, a foim 
affecting walnut, which, as Riley has shown (4th Rep. St. Ent. 
Mo., p. 42), should rank as a distinct species. 
An excellent general account of the life history of the leaf 
crumpler appeared in 1888 in Mr. "W m. Saunders s tieatise on In¬ 
sects Injurious to Fruits” (pp. 93-95); though in discussing rem¬ 
edies it is recommended that the gathered larval cases be crushed 
or burned, no mention being made of the seemingly better method 
noted above by which the parasites are allowed to escape. 
Mr. F. M. Webster, in a paper read before the Indiana State Horti¬ 
cultural Society and published in the transactions of that society 
for 1885, briefly outlines the life history of the species, but records 
