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middle. The labial palpi are slender, rather porrected, with a 

 slender prolonged tuft from the second joint, and the third 

 joint is pointed. The larva is a case-bearer, changing to a 

 pupa within the case. While these moths abound in the larva 

 state, the adult insects are rarely met with. The leaf-feeding 

 larvae are very easily found, as their presence may be detected 

 by the pale blotches they form on the leaf they feed upon, 

 while the seed-feeding larvae are much better concealed. 



"Coleophora larvae do not well bear confinement in the hu- 

 mid air of the breeding jar. To be successful in rearing the 

 larvae, one must use a pot of moistened sand, in which the food 

 plant is placed, covered with a glass cylinder, with fine gauze 

 tied over the top ; or the plant may be kept in water and cov- 

 ered with a cylinder of glass. For this purpose old chimney 

 tops to lamps answer very well. The larvae of this genus, taken 

 in the fall of the year, hibernate in their cases until the fol- 

 lowing spring, and feed upon the first leaves that put forth. 

 They must not, therefore, be kept in a warm room during 

 the winter. The pupae of the fall brood of larvae thrive much 

 better, likewise, if .not kept in a warm room during the cold 

 months. The spring, or early summer brood of larvae, produce 

 images in a few weeks after entering the pupa state, and hence 

 it is much more satisfactory to collect early in the year than 

 during the latter part." (Clemens.) 



In C. roscefoliella Clem, the head and thorax are white, while 

 the fore wings are pale grayish towards the base, clouded with 

 dark brown from the middle to the tip, and the hind wings are 

 dark brown. The case is silken, covered with granulations, 

 cylindrical, slightly compressed, the mouth slightly deflexed 

 and the opposite hook-like end turned down slightly. Its color 

 is brown, varied with gray and reddish-brown granulations. 

 The larva feeds in the spring on the common garden rose, and 

 the case was found in winter attached to a thorn on one of the 

 stems. C. rosacella Clem, also feeds in the spring on the rose 

 and sweet briar. The case is made of the cuticle of the rose- 

 leaf on which the larva feeds. It is a compressed cylinder, and 

 dilated slightly in the middle of the under edge. Color dark 

 ochreous. (Clemens.) Coleophora coruscipennella Clemens is 

 a beautiful bronzed green species, with the terminal half of the 



