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ANARSIA Zeller. 



riate XXXII, fig. 37. ^ 



Anarsia Zeller, Isis, 1839, p. 190. i; 



Second joint of labial palpi with dense projecting "tuft beneath; 

 terminal joint in male very short, concealed; in female, long, exposed. 



Forewings elongate pointed; 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 6 out of 

 base of 7. Hind wings as broad as forewings; apex pointed, termen 

 slightl}^ sinuate; 8 veins, 3 and 4 connate, 5 approximate to 4, 6 and 7 

 stalked. 



Of the four species included under this genus in Riley's list, trlina- 

 culella\\.'&& just been treated under Yj^soloj^hus [p. 922], and helfragesella 

 Chambers was found to be synonomous with Leuce fuscocristatclfa 

 Chambers [p. 794]. One other of Chambers' species described under 

 the generic name Anarsia, namely, alhapalvella, has been found to be 

 an Oecophorid equal to Chhnahache hanstellata Walsingham, now 

 known luider the name EumeyricMa trimaculella Fitch, ^ consequently 

 we can not be very conlident about Chambers' understanding of the 

 genus Ajiarsia, and his last species sufusdla, type of which is lost 

 and which has not been rediscovered as yet from his description, is 

 retained in the present genus simpW because it can not be placed any- 

 where else at the present time, but it will quite surely be found not 

 to belong in this genus. I have, therefore, not made any table for 

 the separation of this and the only true Anarsia of which we are sure 

 in this country, lineatella Zeller. 



ANARSIA LINEATELLA Zeller. 



Anarsia lineatella Zeller, Isis, 1839, p. 190. — Staudinger and Rebel, Cat. Lep. 



Eur., II, No. 2999, 1901 .—Chambers, Can. Ent., IV, 1872, p. 208; Bull. 



U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, p. 129.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., 



No. 5540, 1891.— DiETZ, Smith's List Ins. N. Jersey, 1900, p. 475.— Busck, 



Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5693, 1902. 

 Anarnia ]:irunieUa Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. St-i. Phila., 1860, p. 169; Stainton 



Ed. N. Am. Tin., 1872, pp. 36, 128.— Chambers, Can. Ent., IV, 1872, p. 208; 



Can. Ent., VI, 1874, p. 243. 

 This common insect is at times of some economic importance owing 

 to the injur}^ of its larva to peaches and plums. The most commonly 

 observed damages is to the 3'oung shoots which the larva enters and 

 kills, but the injury to the fruit itself is sometimes quite as aggravat- 

 ing, as in a case in the District of Columbia which was under the 

 writer's observation in the summer of 1901, where the larvaj occurred 

 in such numbers as to spoil for market purposes nearly the entire 

 large crop of beautiful, nearly ripe peaches. In nearly ever}^ one was 

 found the larva, which had eaten into the stone and left the adjoining 

 parts tunnelled and filled with its unappetizing frass. 



' Journ. N. Y. Ent Soc, p. 94. 



