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APPLE. FBUIT. 



0.20 to 0.25. Variable in its colors. This is the Hispa quadrata 

 of Fabricius; whether it is the anteriorly described rosea of Weber 

 is somewhat doubtful. See Harris's Treatise, p. 106. 



AFFECTING THE FRUIT. 



4§. CoBLisG Id. OTR, Carpocaps a Pomonella, Linn. (Lepidoptera. Tortricidae.) 



Feeding upon the core and its seeds, causing much of the young 

 fruit to wither and fall, and occurring also in ripened stored 

 apples; a small white worm with a shining black head and neck 

 and with little smooth dots arranged in pairs, each giving out a 

 fine hair; when larger becoming flesh colored with a tawny brown 

 head and neck; in summer completing its growth in three or four 

 weeks, and coming out through a hole gnawed in the side of the 

 apple; surrounding ^tself with a white web in a crevice of the 

 bark or similar situation and there passing its pupa state; the 

 moth appearing the latter part of June, but straggling individuals 

 occurring the whole year round, dropping their eggs singly upon 

 the flower end of the apple, from which the young worm pene- 

 trates inward to its centre. The fore wings of the moth occupied 

 by alternate irregular transverse wavy streaks of ash-gray and 

 brown, and on the inner hind angle a large tawny brown spot, 

 which is bordered by a brilliant golden mark nearly in the form 

 of a horse shoe. Width 0.75. See Kollar's Treatise, p. 229. 



49. Apple midge, Molobrus Mali, Fitch. (Diptera. Tipulidac.) 



In the interior of ripened and stored apples, accelerating their 

 decay, wliilst the outer surface remains fair; numerous slender taper- 

 ing gh\ssy-white maggots; changing to pup in the interior of the 

 apple, from whence come a small slender black midge, 0.15 long, 

 its abdomen blackish with a pale yellow band at each of the 

 sutures, and its wings hyaline tinged with smoky. See Transac- 

 tions, 1855, p. 484. 



Plum weevil. This makes the same crescent-shaped wound 

 upon young apples as on plums, causing them to drop to the 

 ground prematurely. See Plum insects, No. 70 



