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the pair is on its extroinc costal end clear white, elsewhere pale steel hhie, and 

 extends nearly to the disk of the wing, where it almost unites with a subquad- 

 rangular pale steel-blue blotch, which is usually seen there without difficulty. 

 though it is occasionally subobsolete ; the outer streak of the pair is only half 

 as long as the inner one, towards which it converges very slightly without 

 actually uniting with it, and is colored in the same manner. Further along on 

 the costa. and not quite two-thirds of the way to the apex of the wing, there is 

 another such pair of streaks, parallel with the first pair and similarly colored, 

 the inner one of which, when it has become as long as the inner one of the 

 other pair, sweeps in a gradual curve round the disk of the wing till it almost 

 attains the inner margin, a little way from its tip; while the other streak of the 

 two is so very short that the steel-blue part of it is subobsolete and can only 

 be seen in certain lights. Beyond this second pair of streaks, and rather more 

 than three-fourths of the way along the costa to the apex of the wing, is 

 another streak, parallel with all the others and similarly colored, which strikes 

 the outer margin about one-third of the way from the apical to the posterior 

 angle, where it terminates in a pale streak in the fringe. And beyond this 

 again, and equidistant from it. from each other, and from the apex of the wing, 

 there is on the costa a pair of short white streaks, the inner one much the 

 shorter of the two. Thus along the costa we have a series of 7 very conspicuous 

 short white streaks, arranged 2, 2, and 3. The terminal one-fourth of the 

 front wing is mostly rust-red, with a series of abbreviated, black, longitudinal 

 lines, springing from the other edge of the curved prolongation of the inner one 

 of the second pair of streaks on the costa ; and beyond these short black lines 

 are two A-ery oblique, short, pale steel-blue .streaks, one springing from the pos- 

 terior angle and the other a little above it from the outer margin. Disk of the 

 front wing rust-red, with many indistinct, short, black, longitudinal lines, and 

 on its center the pale steel-blue blotch already referred to. On the middle of the 

 inner margin, a large elongate-triangular, rust-red patch, the apex of the 

 triangle directed towards the apex of the wing and attaining the disk, the base 

 of the triangle occup.ving nearly one-fourth of the inner margin. The triangu- 

 lar patch is bisected lengthwise by a very elongate and slender black triangle, 

 the apex of which attains its apex ; and the rust-red space on each side of this 

 last triangle is again indistinctly bisected lengthwise by a still more elongate 

 triangle composed of confluent black atoms. Fringe dusky, with a black basal 

 line all along it. Hind wing dusky-gray at base, shading into black at tip. On 

 the middle of the outer margin in the male, but not in the female, an elongate 

 semioval patch (fig. .3«) of metallic brassy scales, brighter in certain lights. 

 Fringe of the male (fig. 3a) long, sparse, and grayish-white on its anal half, 

 short, dense, and dusky with a basal black line for its remaining half. Fringe of 

 the female (fig. 3) nearly of uniform length, coarse and dusky throughout on 

 the half next the wing, then suddenly fine and grayish-white on its outer half. 

 Body brown-black. Face and palpi gi'ayish-white. Shoulder-covers largely 

 tipped with dull rust-red. Tips of the abdominal joints pale fuscous above. 

 Legs dusk.v. All beneath, including the legs, with a more or less obvious 

 silvery-white reflection. [See fig. H. (t. h.^ 



SEASONAL HISTORY AND HABITS. 



Our knowlodofo of the life and habits of the lesser apple worm is 

 still very incomplete, and it is hoped that numerous points may be 

 cleared up during the course of another season. It is certain, how- 

 ever, that in several important re.spects the life habits are quite 

 similar to those of the codling moth. 



