I06 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 



fourths of the distance to the base of the wing. These divisions 

 are called feathers; the anterior being called the first feather, the 

 middle one the second feather, and the posterior one the third 

 feather. 



The Orneodinae may be easily distinguished by having the fore 

 and hind wings each six-cleft. Only one species has as yet been 

 found in this country, and that is the well-known European Or- 

 neodes hexadactyla L., the larva of which feeds in the flowers of 

 honey-suckle {Lonicera), spends the pupal state under ground 

 and hibernates during the Winter in the imago state. 



The usual time of flight of the feather-wings is on mild, calm 

 evenings, when they are frequently attracted to light and rarely 

 to sugar. They may, however, be easily " flushed" in the day- 

 time from the low shrubbery on which they usually rest, when 

 they will fly a short distance and alight again. These insects are 

 not generally very abundant, yet where one is " flushed" others 

 can generally be found, often in considerable numbers. 



A few of the species are of economic importance, as they {it^^i 

 on useful plants and sometimes do much injury. 



The family Tortricidae, or leaf-rollers,' include a large group of 

 rather stout-bodied insects, below the medium size, ranging in 

 expanse of wings from 7 to 43 mm. They are distributed very 

 widely over the globe, but do not appear to be so abundant in 

 tropical America as in some other regions. 



The head is covered with coarse, erect scales, which give it a 

 rough appearance. The tongue is rather short, and in a i^w 

 species it is obsolete. The ocelli are generally present. They 

 have no maxillary palpi, but the labial palpi are rather stout and 

 blunt. The antennae are from half to three-fourths as long as the 

 costa, simple or pubescent, and in a very few species pectinated. 

 The legs are of moderate size and length, and often present sec- 

 ondary sexual characters in the males. Such characters alsa 

 occur on other parts of many of these insects, as on the fore and 

 hind wings, antennae, etc. 



The fore wings are moderately elongated, triangular, or some- 

 what rectangular, with short fringes. The surface of the wing 

 is generally smooth, though in some species there are small tufts 

 of elevated scales arising i\t definite places. The pattern of col- 

 oration is quite uniform in the subfamilies, but in some species 



