. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science -- New York (State); Plants -- New York (State); Animals -- New York (State). REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I917 35 a little less than one-half of an inch. The antennae are long, slender and dark brown with numerous fine white annulations. The palpi are moderately prominent and mottled with yellowish and dark brown scales. The head is mostly purplish brown shading to yellowish brown above the mouth. The thorax is thickly covered with dark brown scales with a variable mottling of yellowish brown, the abdo- men being a little darker. There is in
. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science -- New York (State); Plants -- New York (State); Animals -- New York (State). REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I917 35 a little less than one-half of an inch. The antennae are long, slender and dark brown with numerous fine white annulations. The palpi are moderately prominent and mottled with yellowish and dark brown scales. The head is mostly purplish brown shading to yellowish brown above the mouth. The thorax is thickly covered with dark brown scales with a variable mottling of yellowish brown, the abdo- men being a little darker. There is in well-marked specimens near the base of the forewing a rather broad, broken, angulate darker band near the basal third and a less distinct and more regular but somewhat broken dark band near the distal fifth, an area between this and the basal third being a variable grayish with one or more dark spots near the costal margin. The hind wings are dark fuscous and both fore and hind wings are margined with rich purplish brown scales. Pupa (figure 4). Length about one-fourth of an inch, moderately stout and dark bronzy yellow, variably marked with fuscous, espe cially on the posterior abdominal segments. Ihe head is dark brown with a few fine, moderately long ha'rs. Antennal cases slender, the variably yellow mottled wing cases extending to the sixth abdominal seg- Fig. 4 Apple and thorn skeletonizer, side view of pupa. (X 6) (Author's illustration) ment, the leg cases reaching just a little beyond. The mouth-parts and most of the median ventral area between the antennal cases ^yellowish. The dorstmi of the thorax dark bronzy yellow. Scutellum fuscous yel- lowish and with a very fine short pubescence. Dorsum of the abdominal segments moderately smooth, shiny, the segments when flexed ventrally showing along the anterior margin series of minute closely set teeth. Termmal segment yellowish. Cocoon (figure 5). The cocoon is spun upon the upper surface of the leaf and cons'sts of an elo
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