TORTRICID/E: LEAF-ROLLERS. 



numerous projections, and having remnants of the larval 

 warts; it is obliquely truncated at the head, but is chiefly 

 distinguished by two compressed sharp-jointed horns; 

 it measures, on an average, rather more than one-third 

 inch, and varies in color [according to the color of the back- 

 ground on which it is formed] from light green with darker 

 green shadings, to pale straw-color with light brown shad- 

 ings. . . . The moth escapes from this pupa in about one 

 week, and, like all the species belonging to the genus, it 

 has a very active and impetuous flight, and rests with the 

 wings closed and stretched at right angles from the body, 

 so as to recall the letter T. It is of a tawny yellow color, 

 the front wings marked with white and dark brown, the 

 hind wings appearing like burnished copper, and the legs 

 being alternately banded with white and tawny yellow." 

 We have, in the Northeast, a species of a related family, 

 ORNEODID.. It is called Orneodes hexadactyla, each wing 

 being divided into "six fingers," making twenty-four 

 altogether. 



TORTRICID^E 



Like Pyralidse, this is a large family of small moths. It 

 gets its name from the habit, which many of its members 

 have, of rolling leaves in order that they may have a 

 sheltered place in which to feed. However, not all Tortri- 

 cid larvae roll leaves and not all leaf-rollers are Tortricids. 

 The front wings are rather broad and usually square-cut 

 at the outer end. When at rest, the wings are folded 

 against the body. The following are examples of the 

 principal subfamilies. 



Olethreutinas 



The worm of most wormy grapes is the 



o yc rosis larva of this species. If no accident, such 

 viteana 



as being eaten by humans, happens to this 



larva, it will leave the grape berry and go to a leaf. Here 

 it cuts a little flap, pulls the flap over and fastens it down 

 to the main leaf with silk; the inside is then lined with 

 silk and within this snug retreat the larva pupates. When 

 this operation is carried on near the middle of the leaf, 

 two flaps are cut and drawn together to make the shelter. 



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