736 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Cenopis diluticostana Wilsm. The peach twig moth, Anarsia 
lineatella, is a well known boring pest of peach twigs, 
but the results of this summer apparently show that some other 
Species may be involved and produce very similar injury. The 
22d of last June Mr C. H. Stuart of Newark N. Y. sent in peach 
twigs affected with what he thought was the common peach 
twig borer. On breeding it, however, it proved to be the above 
named insect, which was kindly determined by Prof. C. H. 
Fernald. The notes made at the time on the material sent 
are of interest and are here transcribed. All the buds had been 
killed on three or four twigs, 4 to 6 inches long, and those bear- 
ing green leaves also had masses of gum of considerable size. 
The young fruit had also been attacked somewhat. The bark 
and the sapwood under the masses of fresh gum had been 
seriously mined. In some places the mines were linear and in 
others were expanded and very broad. Mr Stuart subsequently 
wrote that there was hardly a branch of the tree that was not 
affected, and that many apricot, plum, cherry, apple, peach, 
willow and other trees for miles on each side were injured, 
though such an attack had not been previously noted. The trees 
recovered later, but many small branches were killed. 
This insect was described by Lord Walsingham in 1879 in his 
Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the 
collection of the British museum, pt 4, “North American Tortricidae,” 
-p. 18. The specimen from which his description was drawn up 
came from the eastern states of North America. Prof. Fernald 
in 1882 redescribed this species as Cenopis quercana 
in the transactions of the American entomological society, 10:69. 
His description of the moth is herewith transcribed. 
Head, palpi and antennae, reddish gray in the males, con- 
colorous with the thorax and fore wings in the females. Thorax 
and fore wings dull rust red. Basal patch, median and sub- 
apical bands lighter in the males and inclining to yellowish on 
the costa with strong greenish reflections when seen in an 
oblique light, showing most strongly in the females. Fringes 
lighter. Hind wings and abdomen above, light fuscous, lighter 
beneath. Underside of forewings dull reddish, fuscous on the 
cell, the lighter markings of the upper side scarcely ee 
Benne. male 14 mm; female, 16 mm. 
