. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 10 BULLETIN 914, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. FOOD PLANTS. The red-banded leaf-roller is nearly omnivorous, its food plants comprising many botanical orders. The list follows: Asparagus, beans, sweet potato, cabbage, horse-radish, celery, parsley, rhubarb, salsify, tomato, sweet corn, pepper, okra, ground cherry (Physalis), blackberry, raspberry, and strawberry among truck crops; chrysanthemum, geranium, rose, lobelia, violet, snow- ball, syringa, hollyhock, zinnia, privet, and honeysuckle comprise the list of orna
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 10 BULLETIN 914, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. FOOD PLANTS. The red-banded leaf-roller is nearly omnivorous, its food plants comprising many botanical orders. The list follows: Asparagus, beans, sweet potato, cabbage, horse-radish, celery, parsley, rhubarb, salsify, tomato, sweet corn, pepper, okra, ground cherry (Physalis), blackberry, raspberry, and strawberry among truck crops; chrysanthemum, geranium, rose, lobelia, violet, snow- ball, syringa, hollyhock, zinnia, privet, and honeysuckle comprise the list of ornamental plants. Other plants affected are clover, field corn and popcorn, cranberry, elderberry, grape, orange, apple, plum, elm, maple, oak, laurel oak, aspen, willow, magnolia, catalpa, balsam fir, and Osage orange. The larva also attacks pigweed {Amaranthus retrofleoeus), goldenrod {Solidago spp.), smartweed, dogbane, Sola- rium sp., and Gnaphalimn polycephalum. NATURAL ENEMIES. The red-banded leaf-roller is no exception to a somewhat general rule that larvse which conceal themselves from view in rolled and webbed leaves and similar places of shelter are the more subject to parasitic attack. The fol- lowing list of para- sites is in evidence:. Exochus eurvator Fab., an ichneu- monid, was reared by the writer Au- gust 7, 1900, from the host larva col- lected at Camerons Fig. 4.—Microhracon sp., a parasite of the red-banded leaf- Mills, roller' Eplurus inclaga- tor Walsh was reared from this leaf-roller on oak at Kirkwood, Mo., November 7, 1878. An ichneumonid parasite allied to Pimpla was reared from mate- rial received from Cadet, Mo., in July, 1893, previously mentioned. (Dept. Agr. No. 5861°.) Lampronota pleuralis Cress, was reared at St. Louis, Mo., Novem- ber 7,1878. Limnerium sp. is mentioned by F. M. Webster as having been reared with this leaf-roller and two others on 3 Identified by Ashmead, who also identified practically all of the other species me
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