152 FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Saunders ; in Ann. Kept. Ent. Soc. Ontario, for 1872, (1873), p. 15 (infesting 

 strawberries). 



Glover; in Ann. Kept. Commis. Agricul. for 1872, (1874), p. 112, f.l (habits, etc.). 



Comstock: in Proc. West. N.Y, Horticul. Soc. for 1878, p. 18 (description, depre- 

 dations, and figures); in Rept. Commis. Agricul. for 1879, (1880), p. 255 (in 

 peaches). 



Lintner: in 38th Ann. Rept. N. Y. St. Agricul. Soc. for 1878, (1879), pp. 69-72; 

 the same in Report on Some Inj. Ins. of the Year 1878, pp. 12-14. 



Examples of the above insect with twigs infested by it were sent to 

 me, in the month of June, for examination and identification, accom- 

 panied by the following note: "The inclosed insects are very inju- 

 rious to the terminal branches of the peach-tree. They deposit their 

 eggs, either very early in the spring, just as the buds are swelling, or 

 the fall previous. The terminal buds of all the higher and outer 

 branches are so stung, and although these buds develop into seem- 

 ingly fine branches, in a few Aveeks they wither and drop off. The 

 centers of the twigs are first destroyed by these insects while in the 

 larva state. I placed several of the twigs in a large bottle, and secured 

 the inclosed specimens from them. One of the pupae seemed to be de- 

 stroyed by some parasite, as it looks as if it was filled with eggs." 



From the above statement of the habits of the insect, and the efi'ect 

 of its operations upon the twigs, the specimens of the moth received, 

 although in too poor condition for identification if they had been sent 

 alone, were readily referable to the insect popularly known as the 

 peach-twig moth. From its small size and structural characters, it is 

 numbered among the Microlepidoptera (small lepidoptera), of the 

 family Tineidm. 



Description of the Moth and Larva. 

 In 1860, Dr. Clemens bred the moth from larvse which he had found 

 on the ICth of June, infesting plum-trees, and described it (loc. cit.) 

 under the specific name of 2)fidneUa, doubtfully referring it to the 

 genus Anarsia. The description is as follows : — 



" Head and face pale gray ; thorax dark gray. Labial palpi dark 

 fuscous externally, and pale gray ac the end; terminal joint gray, dusted 

 with dark fufcous. Antennae grayish, annulated with dark brown. 

 Fore wings gray, dusted with blackish-brown, with 

 a few blackish-brown spots along the costa, the 

 largest in the middle, and short blackish-brown 

 streaks on the median nervure, subcostal, in the ibid, 

 and one or two at the tip of the wing ; cilia fus- 



FiG. 40.- The Peach- ^^"^ ^'^^^- ^^"^ ^^^^^ fuscous gray ; cilia gray, 

 twig borer — Anarsia tinted with yellowish." The moth, enlarged, is 



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shown in JBig. 40. 



