BALSA. 



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palpi and frons blackish ; a black bar between antenna) which are 

 pale rufous ; a black line at middle of tegula? and across base of 

 patagia which have black scales near their upper edge ; prothoracic 

 crest blackish ; pectus and legs whitish suffused with brown, the 

 tarsi fuscous ringed with white; abdomen ochreous white irroratcd 

 with brown. Fore wing bluish white suffused with brown except 

 on costal area, the veins of terminal half finely streaked with black ; 

 subbasal line curved, black, from costa to median nervure ; ante- 

 medial line blackish slightly defined by whitish on inner side, 

 incurved in cell, strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards 

 above inner margin ; orbicular represented by a black point on a 

 faint whitish mark, the reniform by an obliquely curved black 

 discoidal line connected with an oblique wedge-shaped black mark 

 from costa with whitish striga on it ; a faint sinuous brown line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line blackish, 

 oblique and slightly sinuous to vein 6 where it is acutely angled, 

 angled inwards in discal fold, outwards on veins 4, 3, then 



Fig. 128.— Balsa malana, <$. \. 



strongly incurved and bent outwards at vein 1, some minute 

 blackish streaks beyond it on costa ; subtcrminal line very in- 

 distinct, whitish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused with reddish brown ; cilia white with a 

 faint red-brown line through them ; the underside white irrorated 

 with red-brown, a slight discoidal lunule and faint curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Eastern and Central States, Massa- 

 chusetts, Beverley (Packard), Id, 3$, Xew York, Evans Center 

 (Qrote), Id, 3 $, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh (Engel), 1 $, Wis- 

 consin, Georgia, Kansas (Snoiv), 2 § ; E. Siberia, Arnurland, 1 § , 

 Ussuri ; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 1 d , 3 $ . Exp. 28-34 millim. 



Larva- Saunders, Ins. Inj. Fruits, p. 101. 



Pale green with five white lines and numerous whitish dots. 

 Food-plant : Apple, forming a tube of a leaf drawn together by silk 

 to pupate in. 6. 



Sect. II. (Gargasa). Antennae of male laminate, simple; fore wing with the 



areole very small, narrow and elongate. 



A. Fore wing tinged with red-brown, the veins with prominent 



dark streaks, the medial line strong towards costa tristrigella. 



13. Fore wing not tinged with red-brown, the veins with slight 



dark streaks, the medial line not strong towards costa ... labecula. 



