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destroying the tender leaves enclosed in them. Many fruit- 
buds are thus destroyed, and nothing but their hollow shells 
remain. Later in the season these active insects leave the 
twigs and fasten their cases to leaves, from which they eat 
the green pulp, so that nothing remains but a mereskeleton. 
Soon after changing late in June to pupz the moths appear, 
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Fig. 231.—Coleophora malivorella Ril. From Diy. of Entomology, Dep. of 
Agriculture. 
which deposit eggs, from which in the same season a new 
brood of caterpillars hatches, which feed on the under side 
of the leaves until the frost drives them to the twigs, to 
which they fasten very securely their little cases. 
The minute moth, measuring a little more than half an 
inch across the wings, has brown wings with white scales; 
the head and thorax is white, the abdomen whitish, and all 
are dotted with brown scales. 
GRAPE-VINE LEAF MINERS. 
(Antispilla spec.). 
There are a number of mines found in the leaves of the 
wild and cultivated grape-vines, as well as in the closely 
related Virginia-creepers, The minute caterpillars which 
