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with a whitish spot on their outer edge near the tip and crossed 
by two jagged whitish bands having blackish dots along their 
edges, and a row of black dots at the base of the fringe. Width 
1.25. Very variable, the white bands often wanting. A smaller 
kind (Jlnisopteryx pometaria, Harris,) without the white spot and 
bands and with the fore wings crossed by three interrupted dusky 
lines, is thought by Dr. Harris to be perhaos a distinct species. 
See Harris’s Treatise, p. 359. 
39. V-mawckd measure worm, JErannis TUiaria, Harris. (Lepidoptera. 
Geometrid®.) 
In June, eating large notches in the sides of the leaves; a very 
variable ten-footed measure worm 1.25 long, brownish black or 
pale yellow, often with black, white and pale yellow stripes along 
its back, its head pale with rusty freckles, and commonly a black 
V-shaped mark upon the front. The pupa under ground, the 
moth appearing late in autumn; the females wingless; the males 
nankin yellow, their fore wings large, thin, sprinkled with brown 
atoms and crossed by two wavy brown lines, the forward one often 
faint or wanting; a brown dot near the middle of both wings. 
Width 1.50 to 1.75. See Harris’s Treatise, p. 370. 
40. Apple Tortrix, Brachytcenia Malana, Fitch. (Lepidoptera. Torticid®.) 
In June and September, eating irregular notches in the margin 
and holes in the middle of the leaves; a rather thick, cylindrical 
light green worm an inch long, with five white lines and numerous 
white dots. The pupa in a cocoon in a curved leaf. The moth 
appearing in July and again in the cold months, its fore wings 
ash-gray, whitish toward the outer margin, and crossed by three 
distant zigzag black lines which are faint or indistinct towards the 
inneredge. Width 0.80 to 1.15. See Transactions, 1855, p. 473. 
41. Unstable drab motii, Orthosia instabilis, SchifFerrmyller. (Lcpidotera. 
Noctuidse.) 
A worm which I have supposed was the same with that of the 
preceding species, but which appears to be rather thicker bodied, as 
though it had been fuller fed, and grows to a size a fourth larger, 
and enters the ground to pass its pupa state, was alluded to in 
tny last Report. Moths which I knew had come from these larger 
