THE CRANBERRY GIBDLER. 5 



DESCRIPTION OF THE CRANBERRY GIRDLER. 



THE EGG. 



The egg (PL IV, D) is white when first laid, becoming more and 

 more pinkish as hatching time approaches. It is oval in outline, 

 broadly rounded at the ends, with the end through which hatching 

 occurs slightly more tapering than the base. The apex is divided 

 into a number of cells of various patterns. The sides are ribbed 

 vertically, usually regularly, but not always. These are crossed lon- 

 gitudinally by much finer ribs. The average size of four eggs is 

 as follows : Length, 0.441 mm. ; greatest breadth, 0.318 mm. Fifty- 

 eight eggs laid end to end would measure about 1 inch. 



THE LARVA. 



The last-stage larva (PL IV, A, B) has a dark-brown head with 

 ocelli, mandibles, and labrum black; the clypeus is dark brown, the 

 thoracic shield and tip of abdomen light amber, and the rest of the 

 body sooty white, bearing numerous long and short hairs which are 

 black at the base and finely pointed. Its length is 12 to 15 mm., or 

 about one-half inch. 



THE PUPA. 



The general color of the pupa (PL IV, C) is pale yellow with eyes 

 becoming black before the emergence of the moth; the tip of the 

 abdomen is dark brown, the outlines of the wings and the antenna? 

 are brown, and the segments of the abdomen are edged with brown. 

 The length is 8.5 to 11 mm., or about three-eighths of an inch. 



THE ADULT. 



Scudder (5) gives the following description of the adult (PL V, 

 A,B.): 



Fore-wings above of a pale straw color, growing pale buff apically heavily 

 marked with blackish fuscous of varying shades and with silver ; the latter is 

 mostly confined to two subapical cross-bands, the upper half of the inner and 

 the whole of the outer oblique, the inner bent just above the middle and- 

 crossing the entire wing (excepting that it fails to reach the costal margin 

 above), the lower half at nearly right angles to the upper half and subparallel 

 to the outer margin; the inner band is bordered interiorly with brown which 

 extends to the costal margin ; a broad stripe of silvery gray tapering apically 

 follows the subcostal vein to the end of the cell and four fuscous longitudinal 

 stripes reach nearly or quite to the inner silvery band, the uppermost more or 

 less mingled with buff following the costal edge for nearly a third its length 

 and then running a little obliquely across the upper extremity of the cell, the 

 next tinged with silver so as to become pearl gray extending along the middle 

 of the cell ; the other two follow the median and submedian nervures ; three 

 other short longitudinal fuscous lines, much overlaid and concealed by silver, 



