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APPLE. LEAVES. 



With a whitish spot on their outer edge near the tip and crossed 

 b)" two jagged whitish bands having blackish dots along their 

 edges, and a row of black dots at the base of the fringe. Width 

 1.25. Very variable, the white bands often wanting. A smaller 

 kind {Anisopteryx pometaria^ Harris,) without the white spot and 

 bands and with the fore wings crossed by three interrupted dusky 

 lines, is thought by Dr. Harris to be perhaDS a distinct species. 

 See Harris's Treatise, p. 359. 



39. Y-3{ARKED MEASURE wORif, Eranuis Tiliaria, Harris. (Lepidoptera. 

 Geometridae.) 



In June, eating large notches in the sides of the leaves; a very 

 variable ten-footed measure worm 1.25 long, brownish black or 

 pale yellow, often with black, white and pale yellow stripes along 

 its back, its head pale with rusty freckles, and commonly a black 

 V-shaped mark upon the front. The pupa under ground, the 

 moth appearing late in autumn; the females wingless; the males 

 nankin yellow, their fore wings large, thin, sprinkled with brown 

 atoms and crossed by two wavy brown lines, the forward one often 

 faint or wanting; a brown dot near the middle of both wings. 

 Width 1.50 to 1.75. See Harris's Treatise, p. 370. 



40. Apple ToRTRix, Brachytcznia Malana, Fitch. (Lepidoptera. Torticidse.) 



In June and September, eating irregular notches in the margin 

 and holes in the middle of the leaves ; a rather thick, cylindrical 

 light green worm an inch long, with five white lines and numerous 

 white dots. The pupa in a cocoon in a curved leaf. The moth 

 appearing in July and again in the cold months, its fore wings 

 ash-gray, whitish toward the outer margin, and crossed by three 

 distant zigzag black lines which are faint or indistinct towards the 

 inner edge. Width 0.80 to 1.15. See Transactions, 1855, p. 473. 



41. Unstable DUAB MOTH, Or//iOsia xnsfa6f/is, Schifferrniyller. (Lcpidotera. 

 Noctuidae.) 



A worm which I have supposed was the same with tliat of the 

 preceding species, but which apj)ears to be rather thicker bodied, as 

 though it had been fuller fed, and grows to a size a fourth larger, 

 and enters tlie givMind to pass its i)upa state, was alluded to in 

 my last Report. Moths whicli I knew had come from these larger 



