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colored moths among 182 of the normal codling moth from apple, 

 at Boise, Idaho. These specimens were submitted to the writer 

 for determination, and I have carefully examined them structu 

 rally in comparison with the common form of Cydia pomonella 

 Linne. I do not think there can be any doubt about their being 

 this species ; the oral parts, the venation, the secondary male sexual 

 character of the hind wing and the external sexual organs of both 

 sexes are identically as found in the common dark form of the 

 codling moth. The general pattern of ornamentation is also the 

 same, but the coloration is so strikingly different that the variety 

 deserves a special name, the more so as no intermediate forms 

 seem to occur. I propose that it be known as Cydia pomoneUa 

 Linne, var. simpsonii. 



Instead of the dark fuscous color of the common form, the variety is 

 light buff with slightly darker buff transverse striation. In the common 

 form the fore wings are finely irrorated with white, each scale being slightly 

 white tipped ; in simpsonii the scales are not white tipped. The terminal 

 patch, which in the common form is dark coppery brown, nearly black, 

 and with dark violaceous metallic streaks, is in stmfisonii light fawn brown 

 with pure golden metallic streaks. The extreme apical edge before the 

 cilia is in the common form black, in the variety reddish brown, and the 

 cilia in simpsonii are light golden ochreous instead of the dark fuscous of 

 the common form. The head, palpi, body, legs, and the tuft of hairs on 

 the hind wings of the male are correspondingly light buff-colored in the 

 variety instead of dark fuscous as in the common form. 



Besides Mr. Simpson's specimens, in which both sexes are 

 equally represented, there is in the U.S. National Museum a 

 single female labeled Cook, California, July 30, 1883. 



Type. No. 6803, U. S. National Museum. 



