Orneodidee 



FAMILY ORNEODID/E 



" 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 \. y 



in expanse of wings, is found in Europe '"^-ll^v- >• >^^^ 



and in the cooler portions of North America, "^^I \^"' 



exclusive of the arctic regions, it has *ii''>:' ;-••, 'Z>X<^-^^ 



been reported to occur as far south as Mis- "' ''■y-'K 



souri, but is more commonly fouiid in ' ^ 



New England, New York, Canada, Mani- „ 0^7 



=" ' ' ' Fig. 238. — (?. hexa- 



toba, and the Northv/estern States on the Jactyia. \. 



Pacific coast, it is nowhere apparently a 



common insect, or else is overlooked by collectors on account 



of its small size. 



FAMILY TORTRICID/E 



" Die Kritik nimmt oft dem Baume 

 Raupen und BUithen mit einander." 

 Jean Paul Richter. 



The Torti'icidcv 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 Crotoii or Sebastiaiiia in 



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