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The Leaf Crumpler. 

 (Phycis indiginella, Zeller. ) 

 Order Lepidoptera. Family Pyralid.e. 



Fig. 4. Phycis indiginella, Zell. a, larva in its twisted case; >, crumpled mass of leaves con- 

 taining a number of larvie; c, anterior part of larva; cl, adult moth. 



[A brownisli larva about three fifths of an inch long, living 

 within a horn-like case surrounded by dead leaves. Hibernates 

 as a larva within this case, which is attached to the twig. Eats 

 young foliage in early spring.] 



This is one of the commonest leaf-eating orchard insects. It is 

 very generally distributed throughout Illinois and adjacent states, 

 and often does serious damage to young fruit trees both in the 

 orchard and nursery. 



literature. 



Zeller, in 1848, published the original description of this spe- 

 cies under the name Myelois indiginella, in "Isis," a rare old Ger- 

 man periodical issued at Jena, by Oken, between the years 1805 

 and 1848. The habitat of the insect is there 'given as "N. Amer- 

 ica." 



