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thoracic segment the outline slopes rapidly downward to the front 
the head being wedge shaped, viewed laterally, and only about half » 
the depth of the second segment. The head is fiat beneath, slightly 
rounded above, about two-thirds as wide as the thorax; antenni 
and mouth parts very short; eyes wanting. The color is brown both 
above and beneath. First thoracic segment trapezoidal, viewed 
laterally; a large brown chitinous prosternal area extending forward 
to the mouth parts and laterally to the legs; a brown patch upon : 
the dorsum of this segment. Small brown chitinous sternal areas 
to the two succeeding thoracic segments, and a still smaller one on 
the first abdominal. 
Legs very short, not longer than their respective segments; pro¬ 
legs fourteen in number, (counting the two anals),* having the form 
of low, flattened tubercles, each with a brown chitinous patch upon n 
the outer part. The pair of anal prolegs are nearly encircled by i 
two dark brown chitinous arcs. 
Segments of the body deeply separated; sides with two lateral 
rows of obscure tubercles; spiracles brown, minute, except the first 
on the middle of the first thoracic segment, which is larger and is 
surrounded by a small brown chitinous patch. 
Described from a single specimen taken from the blackberry leaf, j 
2. Lophoderus velutinanus, Walk. 
From leaf rollers of the blackberry, collected at Normal, June 30> 
specimens of this species were obtained July 10 to 18. The food 
plants heretofore recorded for it are oak, balsam fir, and maple. 
8. Pyrrhia umbra, Hfibn. 
Order Lepidoptera, Family Noctuid.e. 
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fPlate X. Fig. 1.' 
Late in May and early in June we found repeatedly, feeding upon 
leaves of blackberry at Normal, large whitish larvae, with a lemon- 
yellow band upon the sides, and numerous conspicuous small black 
tubercles upon each segment. Numbers of specimens were bred, re¬ 
sulting in orange-brown moths of the above species. 
LITERATURE. 
This species, common to this country and to Europe, has been 
repeatedly noticed in American entomological publications, most of 
the references to it, however, being of a purely technical sort- 
Under the name of Heliotkis exprimens , it is mentioned by Grote 
and Kobinson in their descriptions of American Lepidoptera,* with 
some remarks on its distribution and synonomy. 
In 1878, the authors catalogued it as Chariclea exprimensA 
* Transactions American Entomological Society, Vol. Ill, p. 180. 
+ Transactions American Entomological Society, Vol. IV, page 432. 
