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jested; and in the Western Rural for May 10, of that year, a 
’respondent at North Bend, Indiana, mentions the occurrence of 
) leaf-roller there in destructive numbers. 
Besides the above, there have been published, as usual, many 
wspaper and other summaries, more are less complete, of ascer- 
ned facts, which it is not necessary to cite, because they add 
Ihing to our knowledge of the species in any of its relations. 
In Prof. Fernald’s Catalogue of the Tortricidse* of North America, 
s species is entered as Phoxopteris fragarice, Walsh and Riley* 
d its brief bibliography and synonymy are given. It is there 
signed to its proper genus, but is still held distinct from comp - 
ici ; but in a letter dated March 13, Prof. Fernald informs me 
it, after a critical examination of his European and American 
iterial representing comptana and fragarice, he is of the opinion 
it they are not distinct, but belong to,one variable species. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Although so prominent in the literature of economic entomology, 
s species has been very imperfectly described. The following 
scription of larva and pupa is drawn up from specimens collected 
i strawberry fields in Illinois; but that of the moth was kindly 
itributed by Prof. C. H. Fernald, of Orono, Maine, the leading 
lerican authority on this family of Lepidoptera. 
Imago .—(Plate VI, Fig. 7, c.) “Expanse of wings, 10-13 mm. 
tad and thorax, light reddish brown to dull ashy brown; palpi, 
,cous on the outside, darker towards the apex, lighter at the base 
d within; last faint nearly concealed by the long hairs of the 
ond. Antennae dark fuscous, paler beneath. Fore wings with a 
ge, semi-ovate spot of the same brown color as the thorax, resting on 
} basal half of the hinder margin (inner margin of some authors), 
I extending two-thirds of the way across to the costa, where it 
not always clearly limited from the costal third of the wing, 
ich is white, tinted with brownish or ochery and marked with a 
ies of minute brown costal streaks with more or less sprinkles of 
) sarne color. The outer edge of the semi-ovate spot varies some- 
at in form as in other species of this genus. The ground color 
the basal half of the costa, changing more or less to a silvery 
ly in its course, extends across the wing beyond the semi-ovate 
)t, as a narrow, oblique band, to the hinder margin, wTiere it ex- 
ads outward and upward, covering a large area on the anal angle 
I including an oblique brown spot before the angle. The part of 
) wing above this is concolorous with the semi-ovate spot and 
fked on the outer half of the costa with four pairs of oblique 
ite streaks, the inner one of which extends to the outer margin 
ittle below the middle. Some specimens show 7 one or two hori- 
ltal black streaks near the middle of the outer part of the wing, 
nges sordid white or tinged with ochery, brown at the apex and 
j 1 immediately below by two white streaks with brown between. 
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^Transactions American Entomological Society, Vol. X, p. 68, May, 1882. 
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