330 THE TINEINA. 





these fiTiits for the reception of her progeny, — a proof 

 of their goodness, however, which the gardener 

 would perhaps rather be without. In the course of 

 about four weeks the caterpillars quit the fruit, which 

 has frequently fallen from the tree, and seeking 

 some cleft in the trunk, gnaw a small cavity in 

 the bark and change there to the pupa state, first 

 closing up their little cells with a cocoon of white silk 

 mixed with fragments of the bark. From this the 

 moth emerges the following summer, and, like its pa- 

 rents, proceeds to diminish the new year's apple crop. 

 One allied species, Carpocapsa splendana, deposits its 

 eggs on the newly- formed acorns, and its larva feeds 

 cosily in the interior, till the acorns are ready to fall. 

 Another nearly allied species, the Carpocapsa W(R- 

 berianaj attacks almond-, peach-, and apricot-trees, 

 in which its larvae may be found nearly all the year 

 round, feeding upon the inner layers of the bark. In 

 this way they frequently do great mischief to the trees. 



The next tribe of Lepidopterous insects includes 

 a vast number of species; and although many of 

 these are undoubtedly of rare occurrence, or confined 

 to particular localities, yet the common species are 

 so numerous and abundant, that we can scarcely 

 move anywhere on a still summer evening without 

 observing their delicate little forms flitting briskly 

 through the air. 



One of the most abundant of these is a small Moth 

 which may constantly be found in gardens and about 

 hedges in June and July; it has the long, narrow 



