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of Hohenhein, in his ‘‘Krankheiten und Beschidigungen unserer land- 
wirthschaftlichen Kulturptlanzen,” with the exception that the labial 
palpi are not black-ringed.’ 
Imago.—Auterior wing long and narrow, and broadest near the base, 
with long fringes; ground color brownish gray, crossed by obscure, 
irregular streaks of gray and purplish shade; a darker streak starts 
from the base of the wing almost to its middle; the inner margin yellow 
or pale yellow, a half-longitudinal dash to the middle of wing, where 2 
large black patches obscurely border on it; costal margin with many 
yellowish spots; outer margin with a 
large yellow spot near the tip of costal 
margin. Hind wing lanceolate, dark 
gray, with long fringes; head and thorax 
with many pale yellowish scales; an- 
tenne long, with alternate black and 
yellow joints, the basal part large, being 
pale yellowish, with a tuft; abdomen 
dark gray, legs brownish gray, with yel- 
lowish wings; labial palpi long, color 
like the head scale. Wing expanse, 
12™™; body length, 5™. 
Season July; habit nocturnal, but 
light has no attracting effect. 
Eggs.—i have not yet discovered the 
eggs of this insect, but the place where 
it deposits them is probably on the side 
of the apple, because the entrance of the 
 peeaealied atomic’ pees s - larvae is easily recognized by a blackish 
cocoon; e, apple showing work —a-d, spot at the side of the fruit after it has 
oa ¢rednced (from drawing by pinened; and it seems that usually only 
one egg is deposited on an apple. 
Larva.—At first whitish, with black head; when mature, it attains 
the length of half an inch, and takes on a fleshy color with many obscure, 
brownish spots on each segment, from which a single minute hair arises. 
Head, first and last segments, brownish in color. 
Larvie live only in apple cores, injuring the seeds. 
The larva matures in a month, when it measures about 7™™ in length. 
It makes a passage through the flesh of the fruit, and reaches the 
ground by letting itself down by a silken thread, or by crawling out 
soon after the fruit has fallen. In either case it makes a hole in the 
ground. 
'An apple miner occurring in. British Columbia has recently been reared by Dr. 
James Fletcher and determined by Lord Walsingham as Argyresthia conjugella Zell. 
This species, of which the writer has seen specimens through Dr. Fletcher's courtesy, 
is so like Professor Matsumura’s figure of the species under consideration as to sug- 
gest that they may be ideutical and that the Japanese insect has already been intro- 
duced into British Columbia.—L. O. H. 
