On an Insect injurious to Fruit-trees. 



chrysalis of most species of Tortrix, evidently serve for ena- 

 bling the insect, when in this state, to move itself to the 

 entrance of the orifice in the bark, previously to escaping in 

 its perfect form. The tail, when viewed under a lens, is 

 found to be furnished with seven or eight minute hooks. 



Perfect Insect. After remaining in the chrysalis state 

 about ten days, the moth breaks forth. Of this the following 

 is a description : 



TORTRIX WCEBERANA. 



T. Upper wings chocolate-brown, variegated with 



orange and silver streaks. 

 Pyralis Wceberana. Fabricius Mant. Ins. II. p. 230. 



n°, 52.— Ent. Sys. III. ii.p. 259. n°. 71. 

 Tortrix Wceberana. Wiener Verzeichniss, 4to. edit. 



126-9.; Svo. edit. II. 43. Fam. B. n\ 9.-Haworth 



Lepidopt. Brit. p. 457, n\ 201. 

 Phalena Tortrix Wceberana. Gmelin Syst. Nat. L 



p. 251l. — Turtoris Translation, III. p. 350.— 



Bralim Insekten Kalender II. p. 252. n°. 145— Be 



Villers Ent. Linn. IV. p. 525. 

 Tortrix ornatana. Hubner ScJimet. Tort. 32- 6. 



Description. — Head brown, margined behind with 

 orange. Proboscis short, pale yellow, spirally convoluted 

 between the Palpi, which are large, subtriangular, yellow, 

 the apex and minute terminal joint, black. Antennce one- 

 third the length of the body, setaceous, not pectinate, brown, 

 the first joint, which is thicker than the rest, yellow. Thorax 

 brown, with two interrupted irregular transverse bars of 



