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In addition to tlie plants above mentioned, this leaf-roller has 1 
been found by Packard upon the pine, and by others upon the lo- I 
cust, grape, strawberry, cotton, and orange. Mr. Coquillett bred it 
from Verbena hastata, Dr. Kellicott from Ranunculus acris, Mr. Walsh I 
from grass and willow. We have bred it this summer from the 
following list of plants besides corn: common burdock (Lappa 
major), red clover, Verbena urticifolia Monarda fistnlosa, and Erigeron 
canadense. Although its injuries have not been reported serious, its 
wide distribution, its abundant food resources, and the number of 
successive broods, bring it within the list of species capable of 
serious mischief under favoring circumstances. 
NATURAL ENEMIES. 
Prof. Comstock says, “One of the larvae on clover was found to 
be infested with a hymenopterous parasite, which, however, failed 
to emerge.” 
In our own breeding cages three hymenopterous parasites emerged 
this summer, all true Ichneumonidae. 
8. The Red-Banded Leaf Roller. 
(Lophoderus triferanus, Walk.) 
Order Lepidoptera. Family Tortricid^l 
This species occurs somewhat rarely in Illinois, and has not been 
reported throughout its wide range to do any injury except to the 
cranberry in Massachusetts, where its larva is locally known as one 
of the cranberry worms. We bred it, however, during this past 
season, from pale green leaf rollers in young corn, and consequently 
may regard it as worthy of brief mention, especially as its local 
abundance in cranberry plantations in Massachusetts would indicate 
a capacity for excessive multiplication which makes it^ a possible 
source of danger in the great corn fields of the Mississippi A alley. 
The presence of this larva and of that of the sulphur leaf roller 
just treated, is indicated in corn fields by the folding lengthwise or 
rolling of the leaves in May and June. If these leaves be opened, 
a green wriggling larva will be found enclosed in a web within. 
The moth hatching from these folded leaves in June, if Lophoderus 
triferanus , may be recognized as an insignificant brown. species, 
about a half inch across the spread wings. The fore wings are 
reddish brown except on the terminal fourth which is gray specklec 
with black, as is also the basal half of the posterior edge of the 
same wings. 
A more detailed description is given beyond. 
The species was first described by Walker in 1863, as Cacoecia 
triferana, and again by Clemens in 1865, in the proceedings of tne 
Entomological Society of Philadelphia, under the name of loi ^ 
incertana. A better description of the moth, with figures of nia 
