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June 9 as small olive-drab moths, determined by Prof. Fernald 
Orono Maine, as Eccopsis exoletum, Zeller—a species not hereto 
reported west of New York, and whose larval history was unknoj 
Each segment of the larva bears one or two transverse rows ot 1 
black hairs about half the length of the segment each row cont 
i n2 five or six hairs. The head and cervical shield are also spar 
hairy and the legs considerably so. The first spiracle, wholly wi 
the anterior segment, is conspicuous, dark brown; the others mu 
and pale. Head and cervical shield wholly unmarked except a 1 
slender median line on the latter. Length .4 of an inch. 
The anterior wings of the imago are olive-gray, crossed by a me 
shade of deep olive, and slightly deepening also towards the tern 
margin The whole surface of the wing is finely irrorate with blac 
snecks arranged in the form of slender waved lines, of which t 
are from twelve to fifteen on the length of the wing An ob 
dusky shade extends from the posterior margin at the base ot 
wing to the middle of the discal cell. A black apical spot it 
sented by five whitish bands upon the costa, each divided 
slender olive line, all these bands tending upward to a point on 
outer margin a little behind the apical spot The basa ha 
costa with alternating black and white spots, the former being 
plainer ends of the wavy lines already mentioned 1 nnge co 
orou ' . ^ • \ _i_... i * ...i . rre\A • -f VI T» CtC± V»nlp rill! 
margim ^ H^d wings dusky, slightly bronzed; fringe pale duel 
tip • antennse brown; palpi white beneath,, dusky at the tip, t 
bronzed gray, plain; legs black, ringed with pale. 
The same larva was found upon the gooseberry May 16, puj 
June 9, in leaf, and emerged on the 16th of that month. 
