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APPLE. FRUIT. 
0.20 to 0.25. Variable in its colors. This is the Hispa quadrata 
of Fabricius; whether it is the anteriorly described rosea of Weber 
is somewhat doubtful. See Harris’s Treatise, p. 106. 
AFFECTING THE FRUIT. 
4§, Codling motii, Carpocapsa Pomonella, Linn. (Lepidoptera. Tortricidse.) 
Feeding upon the core and its seeds, causing much of the young 
fruit to wither and fall, and occurring also in ripened stored 
apples; a small white worm with a shining black head and neck 
and with little smooth dots arranged in pairs, each giving out a 
fine hair; when larger becoming flesh colored with a tawny brown 
head and neck; in summer completing its growth in three or four 
weeks, and coming out through a hole gnawed in the side of the 
apple; surrounding itself with a w'hite web in a crevice of the 
bark or similar situation and there passing its pupa state; the 
moth appearing the latter part of June, but straggling individuals 
occurring the whole year round, dropping their eggs singly upon 
the flower end of the apple, from which the young worm pene¬ 
trates inward to its centre. The fore wings of the moth occupied 
by alternate irregular transverse wavy streaks of ash-gray and 
brown, and on the inner hind angle a large tawny brown spot, 
which is bordered by a brilliant golden mark nearly in the form 
of a horse shoe. Width 0.75. See Kollar’s Treatise, p. 229. 
49. Apple midge, Molobrus Mali, Fitch. (Diptera. Tipulidac.) 
In the interior of ripened and stored apples, accelerating their 
decay, whilst the outer surface remains fair; numerous slender taper¬ 
ing glassy-white maggots; changing to pup in the interior of the 
apple, from whence come a small slender black midge, 0.15 long, 
its abdomen blackish with a pale yellow band at each of the 
sutures, and its wings hyaline tinged with smoky. See Transac¬ 
tions, 1855, p. 484. 
Plum weevil. This makes the same crescent-shaped wound 
upon young apples as on plums, causing them to drop to the 
ground prematurely. See Plum insects, No. 70 
