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brownish ; and sometimes the whole body is brownish or dull 

 flesh-red ; they are rough to the touch with minute warts, each 

 of which produces a very short hair, invisible to the naked eye. 

 They come to their full size towards the middle of June, and 

 then measure nearly or quite half an inch in length. After this, 

 they line the inner surface of the curled leaves, composing their 

 nests, with a web of silk, and are then changed to chrysalids of 

 a dark brown color. Towards the end of June, or early in July, 

 the chrysalis pushes itself half way out of its nest, and bursts 

 open at the upper end, so that the moth may come out. The 

 moth closely resembles the Lozohenia * oporana of Europe, but 

 differs from it in having the fore-wings broader at the base, more 

 curved on the front edge, and more hooked at the tip, and its 

 markings are also somewhat different. It may be called Loxot te- 

 nia Rosaceana, the oblique banded moth of the Rose tribe, for 

 to the latter the apple-tree belongs as well as the rose. The 

 fore-wings of this moth are very much arched on their outer 

 edge, and curve in the contrary direction at the tip, like a little 

 hook or short tail. They are of a light cinnamon-brown color, 

 crossed with little wavy darker brown lines, and with three broad 

 oblique dark brown bands, whereof one covers the base of the 

 wing, and is oftentimes indistinct or wanting, the second crosses 

 the middle of the wing, and the third, which is broad on the front 

 edge and narrow behind, is near the outer hind margin of the 

 wing. The hind-wings are ochre-yellow, with the folded part 

 next to the body blackish. It expands one inch or a little more. 

 Little caterpillars of another species are sometimes found in 

 May and June in the opening buds and among the tender leaves 

 of the apple-tree. They live singly in the buds, the leaves of 

 which they fasten together and then devour. These caterpillars 

 are of a pale and dull brownish color, warty and slightly downy 

 like the foregoing kind, with the head and the top of the first ring 

 dark shining brown ; and a dark brown spot appears through the 



* This word was probably an error of the press in the " Catalogue " of Mr. Ste- 

 phens, by whom the genus was proposed. It lias, however, been copied in sever- 

 al other works by other authors, without correction or comment. Loxotania, 

 meaning oblique band, seems to be the right name for the mollis of this genus 

 which arc distinguished by the oblique bands on their fore-wings. 



