LILAC-LEAF ROLLER. Gracillario. syringellc 

 (With a rolled leaf.) 



LITTLE ERMINE MOTH. Yponomeuta padellus. 

 (With caterpillar in web. ) 



PEBBLE HOOK-TIP. Platypteryx falcatdria. 



WHITE PLUME. Pterophorus pentaductylus. APPLE MOTH. Tortrix po 



LONG-HORN. 'Adela De Geerella. (With pupa.) 



beforehand. One ingenious entomologist contrived to force these insects to spin their 

 webs on paper, and thus obtained a quantity of silk, which he afterwards had manufactured 

 into different articles. 



The larvse of the Tortricidae frequently reside within leaves, and either roll them up in 

 the manner which has just been described, or get into the middle of a bud or cluster of 

 leaves, and draw them together with their silken nets. The leaves of the willow are very 

 liable to the attacks of these insects. A very pretty and well known species of these 

 moths is the OAK-LEAF EOLLEE (Tortrix wiridana), a moth of a beautiful apple-green 

 upon the upper wings. In some places, these moths swarm to a fearful extent, stripping 

 whole trees of their leaves. I have known the oaks to be sumranded with whole clouds 

 of these moths, fluttering about like gnats, and forming an exhaustless banquet to the 

 empis-flies, which were catching them by thousands, embracing them in their long legs, 

 and flying about with their prey, sucking their juices like so many winged vampires. 



Other species live beneath the bark of trees, or even burrow into the wood, while 

 others are hatched in the interior of fruits, and live unsuspected in their retreats until 

 they are on the point of changing to the pupa form, when they eat their way out, and 

 leave a round hole as a memento of their presence. The CODLING-MOTH is one of the 

 commonest of these tiresome insects, living in the middle of the fruit from which it takes 

 its name, and giving rise to the condition which is termed " maggoty." The larva is a 

 round, fat, white grub, which may too often be found in the interior of an apparently 

 sound and ripe apple, and which gives to every part which it has touched a very bitter 

 and nauseous flavour, like that of a worm-eaten nut. None of the Tortricidse are of very 

 brilliant colours, the Oak-leaf Holler being one of the most conspicuous. The fore wings 

 are dark greyish brown, striped transversely with a darker tint. On the outer part of 

 each wing there is a dark brown space streaked with golden bars. The hind wings are 

 simple dusky brown. 



