254 ORDES LEPIDOPTEBA. 



Rhimosia pometella. ChtBtockclus pomctdlus (Stephens). 



A moth has been described by Drs. Harris and Fitch, belonging to the family Tineidje, 

 which has done considerable damage to the apple orchards in the vallies of the Hudson 

 and Housatonic during the spring of 1853. Dr. Harris has called it Rhinosia pometella, 

 and furnishes the following description : 



« Forewings ash-gray, sprinkled with blackish dots, three of which are larger than the rest, 



' and placed triangularly near the middle : a dusky transverse band near the tips, 



' and a curved row of seven black dots at the origin of the terminal fringe. Hind- 



* wings dusky, with a leaden lustre, black veins, and very long black fringes. Eody 



' and legs beneath yellowish white, with the lustre of satin. Expansion of wing, five 



' eighths of an inch' ( Journal of the N. Y. S. A. Society, September). The markings, 



however, according to Dr. Fitch, are somewhat variable. 



The larva is cylindrical, has a pale greenish color, sixteen feet, and a dusky stripe on 



the back : above this is a narrower whitish stripe, which runs along the middle of the 



back. The head is yellowish and polished. Length about half an inch. Its marks and colors 



are variable. 



This larva has inflicted considerable injury upon orchards during the past season (1853). 

 It eats not only the leaves, but also the apples. Like the tortrix^ it sometimes rolls up a 

 leaf for a habitation ; and when the tree is shaken, many let themselves down by threads 

 of silk. 



Whale-oil soap, dissolved in water and thrown freely upon the trees, is found to be an 

 effectual remedy against this insect. 



BuTALis CEREALELLA. Angoumois Graifimotk. 



Color pale cinnamon-brown ; lustre silky : hindwings ashy or dusky lead-color : feelers 

 blackish near the tip ; second joint blackish on the outside : body pale brownish gray. 

 The head is smooth : antennae threadlike, jointed : feelers long and curved upwards, 

 with the terminal joint naked and acute ; basal joint hairy and short : tongue about 

 half an inch long, and spirally coiled. Forewings rather long and narrow, pointed at 

 the end, and fringed : surface sprinkled with blackish dots, especially near the tips. 

 Hindwings blackish with a leaden lustre, narrow, and obliquely contracted to a point 

 at the tips : fringe blackish, widest on the inner margin. Forelegs blackish ; hind 

 ones fringed on the inner side with long hairs. 

 The caterpillar, when fully grown, is whitish with a brown head : legs six, with ten 

 wart-like proplegs. Chrysalis is obtuse at both ends : rings of the body smooth : wing- 

 cases extending nearly to the hinder extremity. The skin of the chrysalis remains in the 

 kernel of grain upon which the larva has fed. The insect hatches from June till August. 



