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Psyche 3:276, 1880.

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2 76 PSYCHE.
NEWK'ULA PTELIAEELLA, s. sv.
BY VACTOR TOVSET CHAMBERS, COVINGTON , KY. Is s, recent ~umero of PSYCHE (v. 3,
11. 137-147) I gave an account of the
larval history of this species, the moth uot then being known. Since then I
have succeeded iu rearing many speci-
mens from larvae taken iu Aug. 1880 : ail of the moths making their appearance
on the same day, 28 May : and although
PSYCHE does not publish mere descrip-
tions of new species generally, yet aa the larval history of this species so recently appeared in its pages, it is probably best to supplement it by a brief description of the imago.
The moth has an expanse of wings of
about 4 mm., and is of a rich deep violet brown, strongly marked with silver, its
coloration recalling that of Anti~pi?a
i(mpelopsiella, Cham. he k t covers
the face nearly down to the trophi, and
the eye-caps are scarcely as large as
usual in this genus; the scales are not
very coarse nor would I describe them
as fine. (There is great difference in
this respect between different species of this genus.) The head is dark brown;
eye-caps white ; antenna1 stalk yellowish, stained with silvery fuscous above ; the palpi are silvery fti~cous, but, like the legs, in many lights they appear sordid
yellowish. The legs and tarsi are brown
on their anterior surfaces and silvery
l'uscious on their hinder surface. Ab-
domen slate color with a silvery' lustre. Thorax, a small spot on the base of the
interior margin of the forewiugs, a rather wide fascia just before the middle of the wings, and a costal and opposite interior spot before the cilia, all like polished silver on a ground color of deep violet
brown ; the cilia white. In some epeei-
mens the legs show little of the brownish color, but this I think ia due to demida- tion. Many of our species described
as Nepticukt belong tu the allied genus
T-riftcwula. but this species is, I think. properly referable to Sfepticuh.
THE GRAPEBERRY MOTH (EUDEMI*s BOTRANA, S. V.'). BY MARY ESTHER MURTFELDT, KIKKWOQU, MO.
This pretty little tortricid is very and cut little flaps from the larger leaves, ahmclant this year in the environs of
which, folded over and fastened at the
St. Louis, and its larvae cause all-or edges, protect them during the pupa ueariy all-of the so-called rot that has stage. appeared in our vineyards this season.
Prof. Fernald informs me that this
It may not be generally known that
species has also been bred from larvae
tbe spring brood of larvae feed ou the
webbing the leaves of the Tulip-tree
tender shoots of the common ironweed
(lAriorlendron') and of Amorpha, but iu
( Vernonia nowsborwsensis) which they
this locality I have only found the larva web together for their better protection, in the grape and on the Ve-rno?~!'~.
When mature they desert these retreats




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