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tlie wormy windfalls is recommended. Spraying as ordinarily recom- 

 mended is thought to be ineffectual. The author discusses the plan of 

 destroying a year's fruit crop with the idea of exterminating the insect. 

 In the locality of the station there were found no wild food plants on 

 which the worms could subsist. The fact is noted that the early fruit, 

 including all kinds of apricots, many peaches, pluuis, and cherries, and 

 some apples would not have to be destroyed. This remedy would 

 result in little good unless it were undertaken by all fruit growers. 



A new orchard pest — the fringed- wing apple-bud moth, J. M. 

 Stedman (Missouri Sta. Bui. 42, pp. 36-5o, figs. 10). — The author 

 reports the discovery of a new bud moth, which Mary E. Murtfeldt has 

 referred provisionally to the genus Xothris and given the specific 

 name maligemmella. The egg is oval, O.G mm. long and 0.35 mm. broad, 

 of a uniform light yellow color, "with the surface thrown into small 

 shallow depressions and elevations which become larger and deeper at 

 one end, in the center of which there is a protuberance or very short 

 peduncle." The larvae at first has a light-yellow color with shining 

 black head and seal brown shield on the dorsal part of the first thoracic 

 segment. The body is sparsely clethed with light-colored hairs. The 

 true legs are brown and the five pairs of pro-legs are light yellow and 

 are borne by the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and last segments. 

 When older the larvae becomes light-greenish yellow in color with the 

 shield on the dorsal part of the first thoracic segment shining black. 

 When full grown it is about 8 mm. long and the color of the true legs, 

 head, and shield become lighter until they are light yellow like the 

 body. The pupa, inclosed in a thin, white, silken coccoon, "is 5.5 mm. 

 in length and li mm. in width, of a uniform brown color and with a row of 

 small, almost round depressions along each side of the sutures between 

 the last five abdominal segments, and with indications of depressions in 

 the form of markings along the sides of the other abdominal sutures." 

 The moth is described by Mary E. Murtfeldt as follows: 



"Alar expanse 14 to 15 mm. General color, satiny brownish buff with slight opa- 

 lescence, and more or less leaden shading on thorax, wings, and body. Head butt', 

 densely and somewhat shaggily scaled. Eyes prominent, purple black. Antenna? 

 two-thirds as long as wings; basal joint conspicuously long and stout; second joint 

 also long with the inner side peculiarly excavated. Palpi (labial) long recurved with 

 short almost concealed basal joint, long slightly thickened second joint and slender 

 tapering terminal. Thorax broad ; patagia rather large, all anteriorly bordered with 

 leaden gray. Forewinge varying in color from almost clear buff to buff, so inter- 

 spersed with the darker scales as to produce a 'smudged' effect; a small but distinct 

 black discal dot and a group of live smaller, less clearly defined ones at the base 

 of the terminal third constitute the ornamentation. Hind wings rather broad, 

 somewhat paler and more lustrous than the primaries. Fringes concolorous with 

 wing surface, also varying in intensity of the dark shadings. Body yellowish 

 gray with bright-buff anal tuft. Legs agreeing in color with under surface, tibia, 

 especially of hinder pair, densely clothed with long but oppressed hairs " 



[The author says:] 



"The moth is increasing rapidly and infesting new areas, but thus far it has been 

 found in the western part of this State only, although it will, no doubt, soon become 



