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By Prof, Packard, in 1882, in the second volume of Papilio, page 

 182, the larva was re-described, the occurrence of the insect in 

 Maine was noted, and observations were added upon its food plants 

 and the date of its transformations. 



In the same year, Prof. Fernald mentions the species in his list 

 of North American Tortricidae, and gives its synonomy, distribution, 

 and choice of food plants. 



In 1883, Mr. Coquillet, of Illinois, described the larva again, and 

 gave some additional notes upon its food plants and life history. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Imago. — This insect may be described in general terms as a 

 brownish yellow moth, the fore wings of which are marked by two 

 V-shaped brown bands (the apex of the angle backwards) so placed 

 that when the wings are closed these markings form an X. 



The palpi are long, nearly or quite twice the length of the head, 

 yellow above, deep red laterally and beneath. The antenna" are red- 

 dish brown ; the head and thorax are yellow above, tinged with red 

 or purple at the sides ; the patagia red in front, yellow beyond. 

 Anterior wings golden yellow, finely reticulated with red or purplish, 

 (sometimes the reticulations are wanting), costa tinged with purple 

 at base. A purple spot on the middle of internal margin throws out 

 two diverging lines, one of which attains the costa at the basal 

 third, the other ending just below a similarly colored subapical costal 

 spot. The internal margins more or less tinged with purple, some- 

 what constant and deepest towards the base ; fringes yellow. Pos- 

 terior wings above and beneath varying from pale yellowish fuscous 

 to dark fuscous or blackish. Under surface of anterior wings clouded 

 centrally with fuscous ; the margins paler, sometimes yellow. Abdo- 

 men brownish, legs pale silvery brown, anterior ones darkest. Ex- 

 panse, female, 14-17 mm. ; female, 17-19 mm. 



Larva. — Cylindrical, slightly fusiform, 14-15 m.m. long. Head and 

 cervical shield varying from pale honey-yellow to yellowish brown, 

 the rest of the body yellowish green, translucent, showing the darker 

 green of the alimentary canal. Eyes, third joint of antennae and 

 tarsi blackish. Piliferous tubercles (slightly paler than the rest of 

 the body) on each segment, arranged in a trapezoid, each bearing a 

 brownish hair half as long as the body is thick. Spiracles green, 

 ringed with brown. At the end of the supra- anal is a flattened 

 spinose tubercle. 



Pupa. — The pupa is thus described by Prof. Comstock in the Pie- 

 port of the Department of Agriculture for 1880 : 



"Length, 8 m.m. Color, dark shining brown, lighter at the end 

 of the wing covers and the parts covering the palpi and base of thfe 

 antennae. Front rounded and smooth. Abdominal segments on the 

 dorsal side armed with two transverse rows of small spines inclined 

 backward, those on the posterior edge of each segment finer and 

 closer than those of the other row. Abdomen terminated by a pro- 

 tuberance, flattened above, rounded at the end, hollowed out under- 

 neath the base, and armed with two fine hooks on each side, and 

 four from the end." 



