Apple^ or Codlings Moth. 235 



pedicularius Linn.^ although it is stated by the editor of the 

 work from which the quotation is taken to be A. pomorum. 



The proceedings of another species of weevil have been 

 described in the first number of the Entomological Magazine^ by 

 an anonymous writer : they are nearly similar to those described 

 above, and are stated by the editor of that periodical, in a foot 

 note, to be those of Anthonomus pomorum. Schmidberger 

 also gives the apple as the real food of the larva of the splendid 

 (but exceedingly rare in England) Rhynchites Bacchus. The 

 proceedings of a moth, of which the larva burrows into the 

 very young fruit, and causes it to drop off before it has attained 

 the size of a nut, have been observed by myself, and will form 

 an article in this series ; and the anonymous author of the 

 articles on " Blight" in the Entomological Magaziyie gives a 

 singular account of a quantity of aphides found in the interior 

 of codlings, without "any road in or out;" but they were all 

 dead, although some remained hanging by the beak to the pips, 

 which seem to have been their food, although surrounded by an 

 inch and a half of pulp in every direction. 



But ail these fruit-feeding insects are surpassed in their 

 powers of doing mischief by a little moth, belonging to the same 

 family as the rose moth described in Gard. Mag., vol.xiii. p. 385. ; 

 and systematically known under the following names; — 



Family, TortricidEe. 



Genus, Carpocapsa Treitschke, Curtis, Stephens, Syn., Semasia Siephetis 

 olim, Cydia Hiibner, Phalae^na T'inea Linn., Tortrix Haivortli, Pyralis 

 Fabricius. 



Species, Carpocapsa Pomonella Tr., Curt,, Steph. Illustrations of Brit. Ent. 

 Haiistelldta, vol. iv. p. 119. Syn., Phal. (T'inea) Pomonella Linn. Syst. 

 Nat., ii. 892. ; Pyralis Pomona Fabricius Eiit. Syst., 3. 2. p. 279.; Tortrix 

 Pomonana Haivorth hep. Brit., p. 437. 



The Codling Moth, Ph. Pomonella, Wilkes Engl. Moths, pi. 9. The Apple- 

 Moth, Harrises Vade Mecum, p. 9. 



Of this insect it has been well observed, that " it is the most 

 beautiful of the beautiful tribe to which it belongs ; yet, from its 

 habits not being know^n, it is seldom seen in the moth state ; 

 and the apple-grower knows no more than the man in the moon 

 to what cause he is indebted for his basketfuls of wormeaten 

 windfalls in the stillest weather." {Eiit. Mag., i. p. 144.) 



The cause why, on examination, the fallen fruit merely 

 exhibits tha amount of damage done to the apple, without 

 enabling us to obtain a knowledge of the insect itself, is this : — 

 there is a remarkable instinct, possessed not only by these fruit 

 parasites, but also by the larvae of the /chneumonidse, which are 

 parasitic upon other insects, whereby they are directed to leave 

 untouched the vital part of their prey till the last. It is only 

 upon the fatty parts of a caterpillar that the larvee of the ich- 

 neumons feed for a length of time ; and it is only upon the 

 pulpy parts of the apple {^fig. 34. h, i) that the larva {k) of 



