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Psyche 3:88, 1880.

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pigment from the examples furnished by
store the blue color by means of alkalies. YOLI, but as it occurs in such minute quan- l7ours truly,
tities I was obliged to give up that idea, Joseph Jf. Wilson, 8. B.
and to experiment on the entire wing ; this Charlcstown, Mass., may account for my not being able to re- 25 July 1880. NOTES ON PHOXOPTERIS ANGULIFASCIANA ZELL. BY CIIARLES HENRY FERNALD, OROKO, ME.
On the 23d of May 1878, between one
and two p. nl., I saw a small Tortricid
flnttcring in a very peculiar manner over a patch of clover. Approaching nearer, so
that I could observe more closely, I found that she was depositing her eggs on the
leaves of the white clover (Tr~oliun~ re- pens).
She fluttered about on the upper side
of the leaf for a little time, then standing over and in a line with the midrib, she de- posited an egg on the niidrib, about one- third the distance from the end. In some cases only one egg was deposited on a leaf, in others, two ; but in the latter case tlie second egg was deposited in the same man- ner as the first, but at a third of the dis- tmce from the opposite end of the leaf.
Having observed the manner of depositing the egg, I attempted to capture the fe-
male, but failed to do so. I therefore
took up the plants into a flower pot, taking then1 into the house where their trans-
formations could be observed.
The eggs were of an oval form, some-
what flattened, so as to rise but little above the surface of the leaf. The length was 0.8 mm., width 0.6 mm., thickness about 0.4
mm. Color did1 grayish white, transpar-
ent at the edges ; surface reticulated,
as coulcl be seen under a strong lcns, wit11 a play of colors.
The moth \va3 not easily dist~irbecl while depositing her eggs, and readily distin- guished between the leaves of dover and
sorrel, alighting several times on leaves of the latter, and as quickly flying off to an- other leaf, not stopping till she came to the leaves of clover.
Being called away from home at this
time, I did not learn the time required for the eggs to hatch, but on my return 1 found that the young larvae had hatched and were feeding. They drew the edges of the leaf- let up together, securing them with silk, and fed on the epidermis of' the upper side of the leaflet, and on the parenchyma, leav- ing the epidermis of the lower side of the leaflet - now the outside of their clomicil - intact, while the excrements were de-
posited in one end of the closed leaflet. After having eaten all the food fnrnished by one leaflet, they at once left for another, . going down one leafstalk and up another. I did not have an opportunity to make a
description of the larva at the time, but remember it as being dnll glassy green.
Early in .July the moths emerged, and
proved to be Phoxopteris ungul~asciu~~~
Zell.




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