BUD-MOTHS. 
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the fore wlno:s broader at the base, more curved on the 
front edge, and more hooked at the tip, and its markings 
are also somewhat different. It may 
be called Loxotcenia Rosaceana (Fig. 
238), the oblique-banded moth of the 
Rose tribe, for to the latter the apple- 
tree bclone’s as well as the rose. The 
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fore wings of this moth are very much 
arched on their outer edije, and curve 
in the contrary direction at the tip, like a little hook or 
short tail. They are of a light cinnamon-brown color, 
crossed with little wavy darker-brown lines, and with three 
broad oblique dark brown bands, whereof one covers the 
base of the wing, and is oftentimes indistinct or wanting, 
the second crosses the middle of the wing, and the third, 
which is broad on the front edge and narrow behind, is 
near the outer hind margin of the wing. The hind wings 
are ochre-yellow, with the folded part next to the body 
blackish. It expands one inch or a little more. 
Little caterpillars of another species are sometimes found 
in May and June in the opening buds and among the ten¬ 
der leaves of the apple-tree. They live singly in the buds, 
the leaves of which they fasten together and then devour. 
These caterpillars are of a pale and dull brownish color, 
warty and slightly downy like the foregoing kind, with the 
head and the top of the first ring dark shining brown; 
and a dark brown spot appears through the skin on the 
top of the eighth ring. They generally come to their 
growth by the middle of June, and are changed to shining 
brown chrysalids within the curled leaves, in a little web 
of silk, wherewith their retreats are lined. The chrysalis 
has only one row of prickles across the rings of the back. 
The moths come out early in July. They very closely 
several other works by other authors, without correction or comment. Loxotcenia, 
meaning oblique band, seems to be the right name for the moths of this genus, 
which are distinguished by the oblique bands on their fore wings. 
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Fig, 238. 
