382 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW- YORK 



CHERRY. LEAVES. 



The RosACEAN Tortrix, Xo. 46, is a common worm upon the 

 cherry 



8T. Cherrt-eating Tortrix, LozotcBuia Cerafiivorana^ new species. (Le- 

 pidoptera. Tortricidae.) Plate ii, fig. 3. 



In July, tieing the leaves together with silken threads; when 

 numerous, living in societies and forming a large nest, drawing all 

 the twigs and leaves of a particular limb together; oftenest seen 

 on the choke cherry, but occurring also on the garden cherry; an 

 ochre yellow worm with the head, neck, hiud end and feet 

 black, and a few line hairs from smooth shining dots; form- 

 ing its pupa in the same nest; the moth broad and flat when 

 at rest, the outer edge of its fore wings being strongly rounded 

 towards the base and straight from the middle to the tip, 

 these wings with irregular wavy bands alternately of bright ochre 

 yellow and pale leaden blue, the yellow bands often varied with 

 rusty or blackish atoms forming darker spots, the most con- 

 spicuous one of which is placed on the outer margin near the tip, 

 and from this spot a broader ochre yellow band extends towards 

 the hind margin forward of its middle and curves thence to the 

 inner angle; hind wings and all beneath pale ochre yellow. 

 "Width 0.75 to 1.10. Like others of this group this moth varies 

 greatly, the marks on its fore wings being confused and indistinct 

 or wiiolly obliterated in old rubbed individuals. It may always 

 be known, however, from the other moths related to it, by its 

 bright yellow color, in connection with its size and the shape of 

 its fore wings. None of the described insects of this genus appear 

 to have hind wings of so pure yellow without any smoky or dusky 

 shade. 



8§. / Fall web worm, Hyphantria textor, Harris. (Lepidoptera. Arctiidae."* 



In August and the fore-part of September, forming a large thin 

 cobweb-like nest on the end of a limb and eating all the leaves 

 in and around it ; smallish caterpillars living together in a society, 

 their color pale yellow, with a broad black or blackish stripe 

 upon the back and another beneath, thinly clothed with whitish 

 hairs growing from smooth orange yellow and black dots, the 

 head and feet black; the worms of the same nest varying greatly 



