SUMMARY
1. | Six of twenty representative species of Aspergilli were found to be capable of producing a lethal infection in Platysamia cecropia L. | ||||
2. | Of eight other genera tried, only Mettarhizium and Fonsecaca proved to be infective to the insect. | ||||
3. | The host range of Aspergillus flavus Link has been extended to include six more genera of the Lepidoptera; the attempt to infect two beetles proved unsuccessful. |