. Annual report. 1st-12th, 1867-1878. l brown spot. The fringe is reddish, silvery on the inner hind wings are pale, smoky, concolorous with the under side of thefore wings, while the under side of the hind wings is whitish. It ex-pands .70 to .80 of an inch. In the pupa the segments of the abdomen are divided by deepsutures, the edge being angulated, and with two dorsal rows of unusuallysmall spines. The tip is prolonged into a long point, nearly twice aslong as wide, and giving rise to three pairs of curved minute , .34 of an inch. The Bed-striped Cranberry Worm.—T
. Annual report. 1st-12th, 1867-1878. l brown spot. The fringe is reddish, silvery on the inner hind wings are pale, smoky, concolorous with the under side of thefore wings, while the under side of the hind wings is whitish. It ex-pands .70 to .80 of an inch. In the pupa the segments of the abdomen are divided by deepsutures, the edge being angulated, and with two dorsal rows of unusuallysmall spines. The tip is prolonged into a long point, nearly twice aslong as wide, and giving rise to three pairs of curved minute , .34 of an inch. The Bed-striped Cranberry Worm.—This worm I observed,September 20, to be common on the heads of cranberry-plants in Ham-ilton, Mass., drawing the leaves together, eating off one side of a leaf,either wholly or in part, and eating the parenchyma, leaving the re-verse side untouched. Twelve or fourteen terminal leaves are usuallythus eaten ; sometimes the terminal leaves are not touched, the cater-pillar working up from below. The leaves are either drawn together by. 524 KEPORT UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. a few silk threads, or there is a regular tube of silk situated betweentwo leaves, the latter severed from their connection withthe branch, but held in place by silk tbreads, the leaves con-sequently turning brown; the heads of the branches arethus withered for about an inch, so that patches of the cran-berry-bed are brown and withered. Body long and slender, tapering a little toward the head,but more toward the tail. Head about three-fourths as wideas the middle of the body. Pale testaceous, with a few longhairs. Mandibles reddish, dusky at tips. Ocelli unusually long, nearly as long as the head, elon-gate lunate, with no markings on it, slightly wider than thep^l head, but decidedly narrower than the succeeding Body pale livid green, with six longitudinal pale-reddishJF lines, broken and irregular toward the head, but more dis-wf 1 inct and wider toward the tail, so that
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