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ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY 



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from the shapes of the cases. Nearly related to them are the little 

 clothes moths, the plague of every housekeeper, which feed on 



woolens, furs, etc. 

 There are several 

 species: one makes 

 a case of bits of 

 food fastened to- 

 gether with silk, 

 another builds a 

 tube, and a third 

 feeds unprotected. 

 The more common 

 forms are of a 

 brown color and 



FlG. 288. The angumois grain-moth (Sitotroga cerealella may be distin- 



01.). (Enlarged) guished from other 



rt, eggs ; b, larva at work ; c, larva ; d, pupa ; <?,/, moth. (After srrl all moths which 

 Chittenden, United States Department of Agriculture) 



frequent the house 



by the broad fringe to the wings already mentioned. Another mem- 

 ber of this family which is a serious pest of stored corn in the 

 South is the angumois grain-moth 

 (Gelechia cerealella], whose larvae 

 live in the kernels of corn and annu- 

 ally destroy millions of dollars' worth. 

 The leaf -rollers (Tortricidae). Here 

 and there on various shrubs and 

 plants will be found leaves which 

 have been rolled up and fastened 

 together with silk by a little cater- 

 pillar living within. Most of this is 

 done by the leaf-rollers, which are 

 the most characteristic of the family 

 Tortricidae, though by no means all 

 leaf-rollers belong to this group. The 

 oblique-banded leaf-roller (Archips FIG. 289. The oblique-banded leaf- 



r roller (Archips rosaceana}. (Slightly 



rosaceana] is found commonly on enlarged) 



roses and various fruit trees, occa- ^ egg . mass : ^ ]arva . r)pupa; ^ fema i e 



sionally becoming injurious, while its moth; <?, male moth 



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