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lon«», of female 30 mm.; black striped with reddish gold; four pair of dorsal brushes, 

 golden brown; pencils black, adorned with long variable hairs; warts white covered 

 with golden hair; head grayish black with red collar; spring and summer broods. 

 Eggs deposited in mass near pupal exuvium; overmnter. 



Distribution: Europe. 

 Henschel, G. a. 0. Die Schadlichen Forst und Obstbaum-Insekten, 1895, p. 326. 



Tela anartoides Walker. 

 (Painted Apple Moth. Lymantriidse; Lepidoptera.) 



Hosts: Fruits, particularly apple, cherry, rose, acacia. Almost omnivorous. 



Injury: One of most injurious caterpillars of New South Wales. Eats upper surface 

 of leaves. ''Strips trees." (French.) 



Description and biology: AdultiemoXe. short, rounded, wingless; male, wing expanse 

 25 mm. ; fore wings dark brown marbled with slender lines and black spots; hind wings 

 yellow surrounded with black outer margin; antennae featherlike. Two broods. 

 Pupa in loose brown silken cocoon of flimsy character. Winters as pupa. Larva, 

 44 mm. long, brown, hairy, with tufts of hairs standing out at front and sides of head 

 and stiff brushes of gray hairs along center of back. Egg, dull white, hemispherical. 

 Females average 700 eggs, deposited in the cocoon. (See plate xxiv.) 



Distribution: New South Wales, \'ictoria. 

 French, C. Handbook of Destructive Insects of Victoria, 1900, pt. 3, p. 94. 



Olethreutes cynobatella Linnseus. 



(Gray Fruit Tree Bud Moth. Tortricidae; Lepidoptera.) 



Host: Various fruit trees. 



Injury: Attacks leaf and blossom buds. 



Description and biology: Adult, fore wing 7.5-10.5 mm. ; from the middle of the front 

 margin to the inner angle dark bluish-gray mixed with brown; behind the middle, two 

 variable, distinct dark spots on an entirely white background; the large apical third 

 white, clouded with gray. On wing, June until August (Germany). Pupates in 

 grass or in crumpled leaves, drawn together, during May and June. Larva, brownish 

 green; bores in the opening leaf and flower buds, the points of which it spins together; 

 occurs in spring from time of swelling of buds until May (Germany). Eggs are depos- 

 ited singly on buds; overwinter. 



Distribution: Germany, Europe. 

 Henschel, G. A. O. Die Schadlichen Forst und Obstbaum-Insekten, 1895, p. 417. 



.4nastrepha fraterculus Wiedemann (acidusa Walker). 



(Fruit Fly. Trypetidse; Diptera.) 



Hosts: Guava, (Psidium guajava), coffee berries, pear, peach, mango, orange, Eugenia 

 spp., Phylocalyx. Japanese plum, Japanese persimmon, Para plum (Sporidias spp.?), 

 Annona humboldtiana, jobo amarillo, jobo de la India. 



Injury: A very destructive species and likely to be introduced. 



Description and biology: Adult fly, about 12 mm. in length (the female exclusive of 

 the ovipositor), with a wing expanse slightly over 25 mm. Color of body rust-yellow 

 or brownish yellow, with three sulphur-yellow longitudinal stripes on the thorax in 

 well preserved mature specimens. Wings clear tinted in part with a characteristic 

 pattern of yellow brown, the brown predominating on the basal half and extending 

 obliquely forward, being continued along the anterior margin in a broad streak to the 

 extreme tip of the wing; a clear sinuate basal zone involves the second basal cell, 

 the base of the discal and part of the first basal cell, and is followed by a detached spot 

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