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15. Thorax and base of fore wing pale drab brown, paler than ground color of 



rest of wing (13) interstinctana. 



Thorax and base of fore wing fuscous brown, coneolorous with ground 

 color of rest of wing 16. 



16. Hind wing cilia uniformly clear white except for contrasting dark basal 



band (14) edwardsiana. 



Hind wing cilia pale fuscous ; sometimes shaded with whitish but never 

 distinctly white 17. 



17. Some faint whitish dusting on terminal area of fore wing; dorsal geminate 



markings extending above middle of wing (16) dyarana. 



No white dusting on terminal area ; dorsal geminations not extending above 

 middle of wing (15) lana (part). 



GRorp A. — OcEixoiD Patch Consisting of Two Vertical Bars Inclosing 

 Black Dots or LoNGirtTDiNAL Streaks 



1. GRAPHOLITHA MOLESTA (Bosck) 



(Figs. 129, 305) 



Laspeyresia mclesta Buses, Joum. Agr. Res. U. S. Dept. Agr., vol. 7, 1916, 

 p. 373. — QuAiNTANCE and Wood, Journ. Agr. Res. U. S. Dept. Agr., vol. 

 7, 1916, pp. 373-377. — Chukichi Harukawa and Nobumasa Yagi, 

 Berichte des Ohara Instit., Juraschiki, Japan, voL 1, pt. 2, 1917, pp. 

 151-170: vol. 2, pt. 3, 1923, pp. 235-258.— Yasusui Nawa, Insect 

 World, Gifu, vol. 21, no. 7, pi. 7. — Wood and Se2lk8Egg. Journ. Agr. 

 Res. U. S. Dept. Agr., vol. 13, 1918, pp. 59-72.— Oabman, Bull. no. 223, 

 Maryland Agr. Exp. Station, 1918, pp. 103-126.— Paoli, Agr. Col. 

 Florence, vol. 15, 1921, pp. 572-576. — Meyeick, Entomologist, vol. 55, 

 1922, p. 255.— Truvelot, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1922, pp. 220-223.— 

 Forbes, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 19'^4, p. 394. 



The well-known oriental peach moth of economic literature. It is 

 an important enemy of peach, apple, and a number of other fruit 

 trees, the larva boring in the growing shoots and also tunneling the 

 fruits. 



A moderately large, dark, slate-colored species with very obscure 

 markings. Most closely resembling pacJcardi and liherfAna but 

 easily separable from both. Hind wing with yeins 3 and 4 connate. 



Male and female genitalia figured from reared specimens in Xa- 

 tional Collection from Arlington, Va. (on peach, E. R. Selkregg, 

 '•5-6-19'^). 



Distribution. — District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, Penn- 

 sylvania, Indiana, Xorth Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, 

 Georgia. Alabama, Florida. T\"e also have in the National Collec- 

 tion reared specimens from Japan and Australia. 



These last are part of a series determined by August Busck for 

 "VT. TT. Frogatt. and which the latter had previously figured and 

 described ^ as an unidentified eneni}- of the peach in Australia under 

 the popular name peach-tip moth. Tliis is the first reference to 

 the species in literature. 



«Agr. Gazette, New South Wales. May, 1914, p. 413. 



