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APPLE. LEAVES. 



threads, and when jarred dropping and hanging in the air sus- 

 pended by a thread; a pale yellowish green worm, having a dusky 

 or blackish stripe along each side of the back edged on its upper 

 side by a narrower whitish stripe, and with a dusky line on the 

 middle of the back. The pupa remaining in the same mass of 

 leaves occupied by the worm, and giving out the moth in about 

 ten days. The moth ash-gray, with its fore wings sprinkled with 

 black atoms, and having four black dots near their middle and 

 six or seven smaller ones around their hind ede;e. Width 0.65. 

 See Transactions, 1855, p. 453. 



43. Tawxy-striped Palmer worm, ChcRtochilus Malifoliellus , Fitch, 



The fore part of July, residing in a folded worm eaten leaf; a 

 slender pale yellowish worm with a tawny yellow stripe along each 

 side of its back, this stripe having a white stripe upon its lower 

 as well as its upper side, and a pale yellow head. The moth like 

 the preceding, but the fore wings not sprinkled with black atoms, 

 and having, in addition to the dots of the common palmer worm 

 moth, a tawny yellow band toward the tips of the wings, edged 

 with whitish on its fore side. See Transactions, 1855, p. 463. 



44. Comrade Palmer worm, Chatochilus contubernalellus, Fitch. 



Appearing in company with the Palmer worm, and closely 

 resembling it, but having the head and neck shining black instead 

 of light yellow. The moth also sprinkled and dotted like that 

 of the Palmer worm, but the ground color of the fore wings dark 

 brown on their inner and white on their outer half. See Trans. 

 1855, 464. 



45. Eyk-spotted bud moth, Spilonota oculona, Harris. (LcpiJoptcra. Tor- 

 tnci<lac.) 



In May and June, with silken threads fastening the young leaves 

 together as they are starting from the buds, and living within and 

 feeding upon them; a small pale dull brownisli worm with shining 

 elevated dots eacli giving out a fine hair, its head, neck and a spot 

 on the' top of the eiglilli ring dark brown. Changing to a juipa 

 in the same nest, from which the fore part of July comes a small 

 moth of a dark ash-gray color, its fore wings whitish in the middle, 

 mottled with dark gray, the tips light brown witli four little black 



