Fig. 238. 



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the fore wings broader at the base, more curved on the 

 front edge, and more hooked at the tip, and its markings 

 are also somewhat different. It may 

 be called Loxotcenia JRosaceana (Fig. Fi & 238> 



238), the oblique-banded moth of the 

 Rose tribe, for to the latter the apple- 

 tree belongs as well as the rose. The 

 fore wings of this moth are very much 

 arched on their outer ed^e, and curve 



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in the contrary direction at the tip, like a little hook or 

 short tail. They are of a light cinnamon-brown color, 

 crossed with little wavy darker-brown lines, and with three 

 broad oblique dark brown bands, whereof one covers the 

 base of the wing, and is oftentimes indistinct or wanting, 

 the second crosses the middle of the wing, and the third, 

 which is broad on the front edge and narrow behind, is 

 near the outer hind margin of the wing. The hind wings 

 are ochre-yellow, with the folded part next to the body 

 blackish. It expands one inch or a little more. 



Little caterpillars of another species are sometimes found 

 in May and June in the opening buds and among the ten- 

 der leaves of the apple-tree. They live singly in the buds, 

 the leaves of which they fasten together and then devour. 

 These caterpillars are of a pale and dull brownish color, 

 warty and slightly downy like the foregoing kind, with the 

 head and the top of the first ring dark shining brown ; 

 and a dark brown spot appears through the skin on the 

 top of the eighth ring. They generally come to their 

 growth by the middle of June, and are changed to shining 

 brown chrysalids within the curled leaves, in a little web 

 of silk, wherewith their retreats are lined. The chrysalis 

 has only one row of prickles across the rings of the back. 

 The moths come out early in July. They very closely 



several other works by other authors, without correction or comment. Loxotcenia, 

 meaning oblique band, seems to be the right name for the moths of this genus, 

 which are distinguished by the oblique bands on their fore wings. 



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