788 FIFTH REPORT OP THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
We add the following description of the larva and papa: 
Larva. — Length when full-grown SO™", cylindrical, slightly tapering posteriorly, 
and quite stout, of a dull greenish yellow color, somewhat paler beneath, with a nar- 
row black stripe on each side about twice the width of the last, and equally distant 
from it and the middle of the dorsum. This stripe extends from the thoracic to the 
anal plate. The head, thoracic, and anal plates are of the same ground color as the 
body. Eyes and end of mandibles black ; several irregular black bands on each 
side of the head, extending from the posterior side forward to about the middle : 
thoracic and anal plates with a few scattered brown dots, the latter with an irregu- 
lar row of black points across the anterior side. 
Pupa. — Length ll mm , robust, light brown, rounded at both ends, the posterior 
armed with a cluster of fine hooks; the abdominal segments are covered with coarse 
punctures, except on the posterior edge. Wing-covers extend to the end of the fourth 
abdominal segment. (Comstock, Ag. Rept. for 1880.) 
121. The Silver-pink Tortricid. 
Grapholitha bracteatana Feruald. 
Order Lepidoptkra; family Tortricidae. 
Infesting the cones of Abies bracteata, a small Tortricid larva. After transforming, 
the pupa protrudes itself nearly two-thirds of its length, and from this emerges a 
small dark-colored moth with white and metallic markings. 
"On the 14th of August, 1880, cones of the Abies bracteata were sent 
to this department by Mr. George R. Vasey, from Jolon, Cal., one of 
which was infested with Tortricid larvae. Three of the moths emerged 
on the 13th of September, 1880, one on the 15th, and another on the 
20th. 
"The seeds of this cone, as well as those of others sent at the same 
time, were infested with Cecidomyid larvae. The Tortricid larvae 
worked only in the scales of the cone, while the Cecidomyids were con- 
fined to the seeds. 
u Mr. Yasey, who sent the cones, states that 'the Abies bracteata Xutt., 
locally called silver pine, extends from the northern boundary of San 
Luis Obispo County 40 miles northward, in canons on both sides of 
the Santa Luca range. It is a handsome and striking tree, 100 to 150 
feet high, in shape pyramidal, with an elongated peak. The white 
under surface of the leaves produces a silvery sheen when the sun shiues 
upon them at the right angle.' " 
"The following description of this moth has been written for this re- 
port by Prof. O. H. Fernald: 
Head, palpi, thorax above, and basal third of forewings dull ocher yellow, inclin- 
ing to cinereous on the thorax and base of the wings in certain lights; last joint of 
palpi very small, somewhat darker; legs, thorax, and abdomen beneath straw-yellow : 
outer side of the tibiae and the basal portion of each joint of the tarsi pale cinereous. 
Forewings externally ocher yellow, overlaid with dark-brown scales. Costa marked 
with fine geminate white spots, from which are continued metallic blue stripes. The 
first costal spot begins a little before the middle, the second a little beyond the mid- 
dle, the others following at about equal distances from each other towards the apex, 
alternating with and cut by dark brown, the third and fourth not geminate in some 
