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Epizeuxis denticulalis Harv. This species, kindly determined 
provisionally as this form by Dr Dyar of the United States National 
Museum, must have been unusually abundant in the vicinity of 
Palenville, N. Y., judging from the report sent by Mrs Hiland Hill 
July 29, 1907. She states, in a communication written on that date, 
that hundreds of these relatively unknown moths were upon the 
walls of the kitchen and they were also very abundant about the 
barn and other outbuildings. They were so numerous that con- 
siderable apprehension was felt lest they might prove to be the 
dreaded brown tail moth. It is very probable, considering that the 
laivamou the closely related Ms libre alas, Geyer feeds upon 
grass, that the caterpillar of this species may have similar habits, 
though it is possible that it may subsist upon dried vegetation, as 
has been recorded of FE. aemula Hubn. The evidence at hand 
would seem to favor the latter conclusion, as the moths were ex- 
ceedingly abundant in the barn and buildings where there was pre- 
sumably a goodly supply of dried provencer upon which the cater- 
pillars could subsist. Should such prove to be the case, this species 
must be classed with the much better known clover hay worm, 
Hypsopygia costalis Fabr. as a species liable to injure 
stored hay. ‘This last named species is occasionally rather abundant 
-about barns in New York State, though it is rarely that the insect 
becomes so numerous as to cause great injury. The moth under 
discussion has a wing spread of about 1 to 1.2 inches. It is a vari- 
able gray, white marked species closely related to EH. lubricalis 
Geyer, from which it may be separated, according to Dr Smith, 
-by its dull, pale luteous ground color powdered with brown scales, 
and the blackish transverse lines. It is distinguished from the pale 
fcrms of lubricalis “by having the space between the median 
and transverse posterior line dark fillel toward the inner margin, 
which gives the wing a quite characteristic appearance.” 
Archips sorbiana Httbn. This species, determined by Dr H. G. 
‘Dyar, of the United States National Museum, by comparison with 
specimens named by Lord Walsingham, was brought to Albany in 
April 1906 on Japanese maples imported direct from Japan. The 
young trees were kept in a greenhouse and as soon as it was learned 
that they were infested, nieasures were taken for the destruction 
of all the insects, and it is presumable that the species did not 
succeed in establishing itself in this section of the world. As there 
is danger of similar importations, this occurrence has been placed 
on record and a description of the adult and larva prepared. ‘This 
