I/O EYE SPY 
the remaining life history of the insect. After 
creeping from its petal home it immediately spins 
a delicate white silken cocoon, and within a day 
or so changes to a chrysalis. At the expiration 
of about a fortnight, as we open the box, we 
are apt to liberate one or more tiny gray moths, 
which upon examination we are bound to confess 
are a poor recompense for the blossom for which 
they are the substitute. 
This little moth is shown very much enlarged 
in the accompanying illustration. Its upper 
wings are variously mottled with gray and light 
brown, and thickly fringed at their tips, while the 
two lower wings are like individual feathers, 
fringed on both sides of a narrow central. 
These and other characters ally the insect with 
the great group known as the Tineidce, of which 
the common clothes moth is a notorious example. 
