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and tender leaves that supply them both with shelter and food; 

 and in this way, they often do considerable damage to the 

 trees. These caterpillars are sometimes of a pale green color, 

 with the head and the top of the first ring brownish; and 

 sometimes the whole body is brownish or dull flesh-red; they 

 are rough to the touch with minute warts, each of which pro- 

 duces a very short hau*, 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 Lozotcunia* oporana of Europe, but 

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

 more ciirved on the front edge, and more hooked at the tip, 

 and its markings are also somewhat different. It may be 

 called Loxotcenia Rosaceana, the oblique banded moth of the 

 Hose 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 cinna- 

 mon-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 



* This word was probably an en-or of the press in the " Catalogue" of Mr. 

 Stephens, by whom the genus Avas proposed. It has, however, been copied in 

 several other works by other authors, Avithout correction or comment. Loxo- 

 tcenia, meaning oblique band, seems to be the right name for the moths of this 

 genus, which are distinguished by the oblique bands on their fore wings. 



