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beautiful creatures enjoy the sunshine, and are frequently 
found running about the surface of the apple leaves; during 
these active movements, which almost look like dancing, 
they have their wings closely folded to the body, as if afraid 
their fine dresses might become soiled. They deposit their 
eggs on the apple leaves, and the young larva as soon as 
hatched penetrates to the interior of the leaf, where it forms 
a mine, leaving both surfaces of the leaf intact, but forming 
Fig. 237.—Aspidisca splendoriferella Clem. From Div. of Entomology, Dep. of 
Agriculture. 
after a time an irregular dark colored blotch upon the leaf. 
The peculiar looking larva, which is like all leaf-mining larva 
quite flat, is about one-eighth of an inch long, and of a 
yellowish-brown color, with a dark head. As the time 
