ORDER LEPIDOPTERA. 



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from slender-bodied Tortrioid caterpillars; those which " mine " the 

 leaves of planl mch Battened. Some Tim i ■ ed in 



the stems or r plants, a few produce galls, while man} lis. in 



folded le lerbs and tn 



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F10. 180. Wines and Fro. 181.— The Anpoumois grain moth 



head of a Tineid: and larva. 



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The genua Nepticula contains the Bmallesl known moths. The 

 A.ngoumois grain moth (Fig. 181) eats the interior of wheal grains in 

 granarii 3; ii is grayish yellow, with two or three darker Bpots on the 

 tore w ings. Tim a p< lliol lla 



I. inn . the clothes moth 1 Fig. 



182), as a caterpillar makes a 

 of woolly fibres, an 1 i- a 

 universal pest. So also is 

 Tin,, 1 tapetzella I. inn., which 

 is black on the basal half of the 



fore WingS, hut white on the 

 outer half; destroys woollens. 



'I In, ,1 v>. Uiella is a pale yellow- 

 ochre motli, with a reddish- 

 ochre head ; its caterpillar 





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Fiq. 182.— Clothe-; moth a. larva; b. its 

 •, an<l c-. Its pupa. 



makes no 1 ase, though destructive to woollens, fur, dried ins 

 - Linn. (Fig. is:; is a universal wheal 1 



Family Tortricid.B The leaf-rolling moths an rather stoul bodied, 

 with wide, oblong wings, the costal edge of the fore w ings being < >f t i-n 

 sinuous; the antenna' are simple, or finely ciliated, ana very rarely 

 pectinated; the palpi are curved up againsi the front of the head, or 

 extended forwards, and are sometimes two or three times asloi 

 the head; the head above is rough with ' les, while the w 



'.ten crossed with irregular linesof tufts, and there i< a noticeable 

 tuft at the end of the abdomen. The l< j- are of medium 8ixe and 

 length, and in a few species the hind tibia? are dens ted with 



hair like scales, while iii some cases the males have a ! ng tuft of 

 hairs lying in a groove along the inside of the hind ri F< maid). 



The caterpillars are called leaf-rollers from ih ion habil of 



folding or rolling over a portion and lining the interior with silk; 



