TtEARINQ IMtY.F OF TORTRICLD 



ken ii' v< i to introduci am food in a dai m cithei 



or rain, or mould will be the immediate result. I %v ill 



spin up among their food plant, and emerge in man; 

 night, iu all ca» - \\ ithin thi 

 groups, such as / 



dent low-grow in:: plants, si 

 have plenty of air, not being with glass unless 



to \\ ither, such plants becoming v< ry quickly rotten ii 

 down. This i- also the case with the curious balls of young bramble 

 leaves twisted up hy the larva ol ina. 



" In the cases of the very numerous speci - w hich f< ed in the si 

 of Bhrubs and low plants, eating out the young leaves, - the 



if Antithesis, Hypermecia, Brachytsenia, Pardia, 

 Bpilonota, Bedj 3 inoptycha, parts of Paramesia, Semasia, and 

 Pcecilochroma, mucb judgmi nt must be used. Where the shoots are 

 of hard-leaved bushes and plants, and the larva does not pack its 

 domi< ile with t'rass, tins or gallipots may 1 • i red with 



or wholly or partially uncovered, ry from the 



state of the weather or the condition of the food; but shooti 

 rowing plant-, and those which, as in tl 



. are apt to be full of frass, should h<- put ii 

 nary rough flower pots and tied tightlj down with < 

 or any close textured material that com< .How 



od deal of evaporation, and if dry moss i- introduced it will 

 absorb some of the superfluous moisture, so th laid 



either completely or partially over these also, to keep tl from 



withering, but it must be frequently removed and th< stirred up 



and examined and prevented from becoming mould; n. The 



saint' should hf done with larva' of Sericoris, some of which feed in 

 flower-spikes as well as young -hoot-, and are tl* 'ill more 



liable to injury from mould i Rut of all the low -plant 



era the most difficult by far to rear are the Sciaphi e Ii is bardly 

 possible to keep the solid composite flowers in which - 



leriana feed from becoming mouldy, and the larva d«> not will- 

 ingly move to fresh flowers. Perhaps the best plan is to tic u| 

 infested flowers w ith others in close bunches, so that air 

 them, and then tie them down in flower pots. Tin - 

 leaves in which irgaureana and other s] 

 as befon described Bui the difficult} i 

 condition is as nothing compared to tbedifficu 

 in any sort of confinement Tiny seem bej impatient of 



imprisonment, and as soon as they discover tl in the 



air, or change ^\ condition in the food, begii i the 



vessel, and try bj every possible means to es very 



