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t i 01 nnrl flip first ima^os appeared on the 24tli. ^ Several 
emerged' on the 27tli, and the last of the lot completed their tram- 
fcnnations July ^ to Union county, in Southern Illinois 
Aimist 2 all stages were found in the fields; and from larvae and 
pup* collected at this time the moths appeared at intervals from 
^WThout additional data it will be impossible to make out the full 
life htatoryofthis leaf roller to the southward but fortunately we 
have enough to show the time at which remedial measures should j 
there be applied. 
INJURY TO THE STRAWBERRY. 
The method and amount of the injury have been sufficiently 
characterized by previous writers. The larvae begin by forming a 
web upon the upper surface of the leaf, by means of which, m some 
unexplained way they double the two halves of the leaf together, so 
that, the insects themselves are concealed m the told. Mere they 
eat away the surface of the leaf, so that it withers and turns brown. 
Tt, i» not an uncommon thing for them to destroy the held com¬ 
pletely, so that scarcely a single green leaf will be apparent. They 
thus not only ruin the crop, but may even kill most of the plant. 
outright. 
INJURIES TO OTHER PLANTS. 
Mr. John Shoemaker, of Muscatine, is cited in th® State Horti¬ 
cultural Report of Iowa, for 1882, as authority for the statement 
that this species affects the raspberry, occurring on -p 1 
raspberries adjacent to infested strawberries. It was found 
common ?n red raspberry fields in Southern Illinois last August, 
doubling up and destroying the leaves of this plant m a manner 
precisely siLilar to that of its attack upon the strawberry. It was 
somewhat less abundant than in strawberry fields near by, but was 
still numerous enough to menace the future ol that crop. lhes* 
specimens agreed in larval characters, m every particular, with those 
found in strawberry fields, and a number of them which were reared 
o the fmago produced the same moth. It was also rarely found 
upon the blackberry in the same vicinity; and I am informed ly 
Prof. Pernald that Miss M. E. Murtfeldt has bred it from this plant 
near St. Louis. 
NATURAL ENEMIES. 
No parasite or other natural enemy of this species lias hitherto 
been reported; but from a breeding cage containing larvae ot ™ 
and another leaf-roller* presently to be described, I obtained last 
July, specimens of a hymenopterous parasite belonging which 
Bracon. Unfortunately, however, it is .impossible xo tell from w 
of these species this parasite was bred. 
REMEDIES. 
The only remedy suggested by Walsh and Riley is the C0 ™P^ 
destruction of the plants at the season of the year when larvae and 
pupae are upon the vines. In the ‘‘Prairie Farmer lettei_ 
* Oaccecia obsoletana. 
