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DESCRIPTION OF THE CRANBERRY GIRDLER. 
THE EGG. 
The egg (Pl. IV, Y) 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 antenne 
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, 
Ais.) : 
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 subparalel 
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, 
