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By Prof. Packard, in 1882, in the second volume of Papilio, page 
182, the larva was re-described, the occurrence of the insect in 
Maine was noted, and observations were added upon its food plants 
and the date of its transformations. 
In the same year, Prof. Fernald mentions the species in his list 
of North American Tortricidae, and gives its synonomy, distribution, 
and choice of food plants. 
In 1888, Mr. Coquillet, of Illinois, described the larva again, and 
gave some additional notes upon its food plants and life history. 
DESCRIPTION. 
* 
Imago .—This insect may be described in general terms as a 
brownish yellow moth, the fore wings of which are marked by two 
Y-shaped brown bands (the apex of the angle backwards) so placed 
that when the wings are closed these markings form an X. 
The palpi are long, nearly or quite twice the length of the head, 
yellow above, deep red laterally and beneath. The antennae are red¬ 
dish brown; the head and thorax are yellow above, tinged with red 
or purple at the sides; the patagia red in front, yellow beyond. 
Anterior wings golden yellow, finely reticulated with red or purplish, 
(sometimes the reticulations are wanting), costa tinged with purple 
at base. A purple spot on the middle of internal margin throws out 
two diverging lines, one of which attains the costa at the basal 
third, the other ending just below a similarly colored subapical costal 
spot. The internal margins more or less tinged with purple, some¬ 
what constant and deepest towards the base; fringes yellow. Pos¬ 
terior wings above and beneath varying from pale yellowish fuscous 
to dark fuscous or blackish. Under surface of anterior wings clouded 
centrally with fuscous ; the margins paler, sometimes yellow. Abdo¬ 
men brownish, legs pale silvery brown, anterior ones darkest. Ex¬ 
panse, female, 14-17 mm.; female, 17-19 mm. 
Larva. —Cylindrical, slightly fusiform, 14-15 m.m. long. Head and 
cervical shield varying from pale honey-yellow to yellowish brown, 
the rest of the body yellowish green, translucent, showing the darker 
green of the alimentary canal. Eyes, third joint of antennae and 
tarsi blackish. Piliferous tubercles (slightly paler than the rest of 
the body) on each segment, arranged in a trapezoid, each bearing a 
brownish hair half as long as the body is thick. Spiracles green, 
ringed with brown. At the end of the supra-anal is a flattened 
spinose tubercle. 
Pupa .—The pupa is thus described by Prof. Comstock in the fle- 
port of the Department of Agriculture for 1880: 
“Length, 8 m.m. Color, dark shining brown, lighter at the end 
of the wing covers and the parts covering the palpi and base of the 
antennae. Front rounded and smooth. Abdominal segments on the 
dorsal side armed with two transverse rows of small spines, inclined 
backward, those on the posterior edge of each segment finer ana 
closer than those of the other row. Abdomen terminated by a pro¬ 
tuberance, flattened above, rounded at the end, hollowed out under¬ 
neath the base, and armed with two fine hooks on each side, ant 
four from the end.” 
