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a living. The two orders most largely represented 

 in this respect are the Lepidoptera (by the grubs of 

 the little Tineina) and the Diptera, or two- winged 

 flies. Not unfrequently you may see a leaf that has 

 been thus mined into by two or three different 

 species of larvae, each of which has left its individual 



Fig. 130. 



Mined Bramble Leaf, and Larva of Nepticula aurclla, magnified. 



mark upon the surface. One of the commonest of 

 these is on the bramble (Fig. 130) and is the work 

 of a little tinea, called Nepticula aurella. This, it 

 will be perceived, mines in quite a different way to 

 another common insect (Tischeria margined, Fig. 131) 

 which eats away extensive patches. The larva 

 forming this mine is of a green colour, and rather 



