blossom Hosts and Insect Guests 



and within a day or so changes to a chrysaHs. 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 tail-piece. 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 centre. These and other charac- 

 ters ally the insect with the great group known as the 

 TineidcB, of which the common clothes-moth is a 

 notorious example. 



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