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states), we find it remarkably aberrant from the great majority of 
the family. The head (fig. 111.6.) is seen to be furnished with an 
elongated spiral tongue; the labial palpi are slender (fig. 111. 7.); 
the caterpillars are naked, and more slender at the tail,— hence named 
by Réaumur “ chenilles en forme de poisson” (fig. 111.2.) ; the 
cocoon (fig. 111. 3.) is in the shape of a boat turned upside down, 
attached to a leaf; and the chrysalis is not furnished with abdominal 
rows of spines. Several allied species correspond in these habits. 
My figure 111. 9—15. represents the history and details of a pretty 
species (Argyrotoza Bergmanniana), which commits great havoc in 
our gardens, by eating the young buds and leaves of the roses ; the 
caterpillar (fig. 111. 10.) feeding within the bud, from which, when 
disturbed, it lets itself down by a thread: others tie several of the 
young leaves together, consuming the inner layers, and changing to 
pupz without forming any cocoon ; the chrysalis, when ready to 
assume the perfect state, pushing itself half out of the end of the 
perfect leaf (as at fig. 111. 11.), by the assistance of the transverse 
series of short recurved spines, two rows of which are placed upon 
each segment of the abdomen (fig. 111.12. pupa magnified; 9, the 
imago ; and 13, 14, 15. its tibiz above described. Westwood, in Gard. 
Mag. No. 90. Sept. 1837.) 
Another insect of the same family, Carpocapsa Pomonella, the 
codling moth, is one of the most destructive enemies to the apple 
crops in this country, laying its eggs in the eyes of the newly-formed 
fruit, within which the larva feeds, its presence being only indicated 
by the premature falling of the fruit. I have detailed the history of 
this insect in my series of articles on the insects most injurious to 
cultivators in Loudon’s Gard. Mag. May, 1838, No. 98. In the same 
work (No. 94. January, 1838), I also published the history of Ditula 
angustiorana, the larva of which does great damage to our apricot 
trees in the early spring, by tying the young shoots together with 
threads so firmly, that their growth is stopped, and by devouring the 
young blossom-buds. 
Another species, Tortrix viridana, feeds upon the oak, which, in 
certain years, it totally strips of its foliage, its numbers being so 
great, that when the branches of that tree are sharply beaten, a 
complete shower of these moths is dislodged, Other species, as 
Carpocapsa Weeberana, live upon the wood, or beneath the bark of 
plum trees; whilst some, as Orthotenia Turionella, and Resinella, 
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