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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW YORK 
TOBACCO-WOIIM. THE MOTH. ITS WINGS DESCRIBED. 
fore wing's appear to liave been regarded by previous writers as being so 
confused and obscure that they have attempted to give no full description 
of them. Yet we here find the same series of bands extending across the 
wings as are mentioned above, though portions of some of them are so 
modified, so faint and irregular, that they can be satisfactorily made out 
only in specimens which are most perfect, and by an eye that is well exer¬ 
cised in tracing the very obscure marks which so frequently occur upon 
the wings of this order of insects. 
The Wings are long and narrow, the hind ones twice and the forward 
ones nearly thrice as long as broad. They are traversed by strong longi¬ 
tudinal veins, of which there are eight in number ending in the hind mar¬ 
gin of each wing and running nearly paralled and equidistant from each 
other. The upper wings arc gray with a large faint brown cloud occupy¬ 
ing the disk and apex. Two bands, each formed of three parallel brown 
or blackish lines extend across these wings, very irregularly, the one 
before, the other behind the middle. The anterior band we describe as 
follows. On the inner margin towards the base are three parallel lines, 
usually very distinct, running obliquely backward and outward half way 
across the wing to the anterior end of the brown cloud, each line being 
turned abruptly forward and forming an acute angular point upon the 
seventh one of the eight longitudinal veins. Beyond this, these lines 
become very obscurely traced, only one or two of them being dimly per¬ 
ceptible, extending along the outer side of the anterior end of the brown 
cloud, till they nearly reach the small stigma spot, where they again turn 
Obliquely forward and outward, here becoming more distinct for a short 
distance on the inner side of the first vein, across which they are continued 
in three very oblique streaks to the outer margin, the anterior one ending about 
opposite to its commencement on the inner margin. The stigma is a very 
small egg-shaped spot, placed obliquely, with its smaller end towards the in¬ 
ner base of the wing, its center gray and no paler than the ground color around 
it, it being in most instances marked only by the dusky ring around its margin. 
The three lines forming the post-medial band commence near the middle of 
the inner margin, the two anterior lines running backwards parallel with 
the inner margin, till they reach the inner vein of the wing, between which 
and the next vein they each form a mark shaped like an arrow-head, at a 
considerable distance apart. They then pass upon the brown cloud which 
occupies the central portion of the wing, where they are widened into two 
broad, dusky streaks', which are cloud-like and obscure, running obliquely 
and nearly parallel with the hind margin until they reach the fourth vein, 
where they abruptly turn to a transverse direction and extend onward to 
the margin at right angles therewith, these lines being formed of conflu¬ 
ent arrow-head spots, which are more distinct in the anterior line, particu¬ 
larly at its outer end. The third line of this band extends across the wing 
parallel with the second one, the space between them being grayish, this 
color forming three or four pale cloud-like spots on the inner sido of the 
middle of the wing, occupying the angles formed by the arrow-heads com¬ 
posing this portion of the second line. Where this third line crosses the 
