Orneodidae 
FAMILY ORNEODIDAE 
“Very close and diligent looking at living creatures, even through the best 
microscope, will leave room for new and contradictory discoveries.” 
George Eliot. 
This is a very small family of moths, represented in our 
fauna by but a single genus and species. The moth has both 
the fore and the hind wings divided into six plumes, as is the 
case in all the insects of the family. 
Genus ORNEODES Latreille 
(i) Orneodes hexadactyla Linnaeus. (The Six-plume 
Moth.) 
The moth, which measures half an inch 
in expanse of wings, is found in Europe 
and in the cooler portions of North America, 
exclusive of the arctic regions. It has 
been reported to occur as far south as Mis¬ 
souri, but is more commonly found in 
New England, New York, Canada, Mani¬ 
toba, and the Northwestern States on the 
Pacific coast. It is nowhere apparently a 
common insect, or else is overlooked by collectors on account 
of its small size. a 
FAMILY TORTRICIDAE 
(i Die Kritik nimmt oft dem Baume 
Raupen und Bliithen mit einander.” 
Jean Paul Richter. 
The Tortricidce constitute a very large assemblage of genera 
and species. Because of the habit of the larvae of many species 
of rolling up the leaves of the plants on which they feed, these 
insects have been often called “Leaf-rollers.” Many of the 
larvae live in the inside of the stems of plants, or burrow in fruits, 
and the famous “jumping-beans” of New Mexico and Arizona 
are simply the seeds of a species of Croton or Sebastiania in 
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Fig. 238. — O . hexa ¬ 
dactyla . j . 
