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to appear dry and seared, and most usually lines the inside of 

 the fold with silk. There are two broods tluring the year, and 

 the worms of the first brood, which appear during the month 

 of June, change to the pupa state within the rolled up leaf, 

 and become minute reddish brown moths during the fore part 

 of Jul}^ After pairing in the usual manner, the females deposit 

 their eggs on the plants, from which eggs in due tinie hatches 

 a second brood of worms. These last come to their growth to- 

 w^ards the end of September, and changing to pupa?, pass the 

 winter in that state. The moth expands from .40 to .45 of an 

 inch. The head and thorax are reddish brown, with pale palpi 

 and legs, and dusky antennae, while the tarsal joints arc dusky 

 at the tips. The fore wings are reddish brown and streaked 

 and spotted with black and white, as in the figure, while the 

 hind wings and abdomen are dusk}." (American Entomologist, 

 vol. i, p. 89.) 



The Coddling moth, Carpocapsa, has palpi longer than the 

 head ; the apex of the fore wings is rather obtuse, and the 

 outer edge is suddenly hollowed out below the tip. The larvae 

 feed in the interior of fruits. C. ptomonella Linn. (Fig. 256, 

 11 a) is gray, with numerous darker, transverse lines, and with 

 a curved black line before the ocellated patch on the inner an- 

 gle, which line is edged with a coppery tint. The moth lays its 

 eggs on apple and pear trees early in summer in the blossom- 

 end of the fruit, and the larva hatches in a few days, burrowing 

 into the core. It matures in three weeks, wdien the apple drops 

 to the ground and the larva transforms in a thin cocoon in 

 crevices in bark, etc., and in a few daj's another brood of moths 

 appear, though most of them remain in their cocoons through 

 the winter as larva?, where we have found them under the loos- 

 ened bark early in May. 



This formidable pest may be partiall^'^ destroyed by gather- 

 ing "wind-falls," though the larva often deserts the worm-eaten 

 apple before it falls. The best remedy is that suggested by 

 Dr. Trimble, who binds bands of hay about the trees from 

 July until the middle of September. The larvae crawl under 

 these bands and there spin their silken cocoons, wdien every 

 few days the bands can be removed and the worms de- 

 stroyed. 



