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the pair is on its extreme costal end clear white, elsewhere pale steel blue, and 
extends nearly to the disk of the wing, where it almost unites with a subquad- 
rangular pale steel-blue blotch, which is usually seen there without difficulty, 
though it is occasionally subobsolete; the outer streak of the pair is only half 
as long as the inner one, towards which it converges very slightly without 
actually uniting with it, and is colored in the same manner. Further along on 
the costa, and not quite two-thirds of the way to the apex of the wing, there is 
another such pair of streaks, parallel with the first pair and similarly colored, 
the inner one of which, when it has become as long as the inner one of the 
other pair, sweeps in a gradual curve round the disk of the wing till it almost 
attains the inner margin, a little way from its tip; while the other streak of the 
two is so very short that the steel-blue part of it is subobsolete and can only 
be seen in certain lights. Beyond this second pair of streaks, and rather more 
than three-fourths of the way along the costa to the apex of the wing, is 
another streak, parallel with all the others and similarly colored, which strikes 
he outer margin about one-third of the way from the apical to the posterior 
angle, where it terminates in a pale streak in the fringe. And beyond this 
again, and equidistant from it, from each other, and from the apex of the wing, 
there is on the costa a pair of short white streaks, the inner one much the 
shorter of the two. Thus along the costa we have a series of 7 very conspicuous 
short white streaks, arranged 2, 2, and 3. The terminal one-fourth of the 
front wing is mostly rust-red, with a series of abbreviated, black, longitudinal 
lines, springing from the other edge of the curved prolongation of the inner one 
of the second pair of streaks on the costa; and beyond these short black lines 
are two very oblique, short, pale steel-blue streaks, one springing from the pos- 
terior angle and the other a little above it from the outer margin. Disk of the 
front wing rust-red, with many indistinct, short, black, longitudinal lines, and 
on its center the pale steel-blue blotch already referred to. On the middle of the 
inner margin, a large elongate-triangular, rust-red patch, the apex of the 
triangle directed towards the apex of the wing,and attaining the disk, the base 
of the triangle occupying nearly one-fourth of the inner margin. The triangu- ~ 
lar patch is bisected lengthwise by a very elongate and slender black triangle, 
the apex of which attains its apex; and the rust-red space on each side of this 
last triangle is again indistinctly bisected lengthwise by a still more elongate 
triangle composed of confluent black atoms. Fringe dusky, with a black basal 
ine all along it. Hind wing dusky-gray at base, shading into black at tip. On 
he middle of the outer margin in the male, but not in the female, an elongate 
emioval patch (fig. 3a) of metallic brassy scales, brighter in certain lights. 
fringe of the male (fig. 3a) long, sparse, and grayish-white on its anal half, 
hort, dense, and dusky with a basal black line for its remaining half. Fringe of 
he female (fig. 3) nearly of uniform length, coarse and dusky throughout on 
he half next the wing, then suddenly fine and grayish-white on its outer half. 
te dy brown-black. Face and palpi grayish-white. Shoulder-covers largely 
ipped with dull rust-red. Tips of the abdominal joints pale fuscous above. 
egs dusky. All beneath, including the legs, with a more or less obvious 
ilvery-white reflection. [See fig. 11, a, b.] 
SEASONAL HISTORY AND HABITS. 
Our knowledge of the life and habits of the lesser apple worm is 
still very incomplete, and it is hoped that numerous points may be 
leared up during the course of another season. It is certain, how- 
aver, that in several important respects the life habits are quite 
imilar to those of the codling moth. 
— 10090—Bull. 68—09 
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