144 QUINCE CULTURE. 
ent names and classifications in the past, but all are 
synonomous with that here given. Dr. Harris called it 
the eve-spotted Penthina, and said: ‘‘It is difficult at 
first to conceive how such insignificant creatures can 
occasion so much mischief as they are found to do. 
This seems to arise from the number of the insects and 
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Fig. 134. BUD MOTH, TWICE Fig. 135. LARVA, THREE TIMES 
NATURAL SIZE. NATURAL SIZE. 
their mode of attack, whereby the opening foliage is 
checked in its growth or nipped in the bud.” The fore 
wings expand about three-fifths of an inch, with leaf- 
like venation (Fig. 134). The head, thorax, and both 
the inner and outer parts of the fore wings are dark 
ashen gray; their middle portion is cream white, 
streaked with gray. ‘The under- 
side is darker, with light costal 
streaks on the outer part. There 
are streaks of lead-blue in their 
markings. The hind wings are 
ashy gray. In June and July the 
moth lays her eggs upon the leaves, 
where they hatch and feed under 
Fig. 136. Fig. 137. the protection of silken tubes which 
they spin, drawing the edges of the leaves about them. 
When about half grown, the larva, having moulted three 
times, leaves its tube and leaf to seek a place for hiber- 
nation in a silken cell which it makes in any angular 
roughness of the bark neara bud. If the bark has no 
angular place the larva cuts one to fit it, weaves its 
silken covering, disguised by particles of bark and dirt. 
Now it is about a quarter of an inch long. With the 
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