I/O EYE SPY 



the remaining life history of the insect. After 

 creeping from its petal home it immediately spins 

 a delicate white silken cocoon, and within a day 

 or so changes to a chrysalis. 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 illustration. 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 central. 



These and other characters ally the insect with 

 the great group known as the Tineidce, of which 

 the common clothes moth is a notorious example. 



