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other place of shelter. If all the eggs that form the first brood were 
deposited at the same time, the time for these operations need be only 
a week or ten days, some time in July, but the times vary so much 
that the mature and young larvae may be found most of the summer 
from the time the wormy apples begin to fall till the apples are har¬ 
vested, the broods somewhat overlapping each other, so that vigilance 
the summer through will be the price of sound fruit. 
Spec. Char. Moth. —Expanse of wings three-fourths of an inch. 
General color of fore wings, head and thorax, purplish brown, with a 
shining metallic reflection; the basal two-thirds of the wing reaching 
along the costa to near the apex, and the thorax crossed by a number 
of irregular transverse gray lines somewhat running together, rather 
faint in the middle of the wing. On the outer third of the wing is a 
brown spot not quite reaching to the costa anteriorljq edged on its 
inner side by a dark brown line that is double below the middle of 
the wing, the spot crossed by two coppery lines that reach from the 
posterior margin of the wing two-thirds of the way to the costa, and 
a third short oblique line or dash half way from the end of the outer 
line to the apex. Hind wings and abdomen light yellowish brown, 
shining. 
TINEIDiE. 
Packard says in his Guide to the Study of Insects : “The Tineids 
are a family of great extent, and the species are very distinctive to 
vegetation, having innummerable modes of attack.” They may be 
known from the Tortrix moths by their small size, by the narrow 
wings that are usually pointed, and the posterior inner margin edged 
with long delicate fringe. The wings, when at rest, are usually laid 
flat on the back, but in some species they are rolled round the body. 
The larvae vary considerably in the number of legs, ranging fiom 
eighteen in the genus Nepticula to none in some of the smaller genera 
as Tinagma, etc., though the usual number is sixteen. They are gen¬ 
erally called “Leaf Miners,” as many of them feed beneath the epider¬ 
mis upon the pulpy substances of various leaves, but some species feed 
within the kernels of various grains, some live upon the tissues.of 
fabrics, etc. The latter kind contructs a case or sack of the fabrics 
within which they live, and which forms a protection to their tender 
bodies. 
Tinea dorsistrigella, Clem.—The Clothes Moth. 
This is only one of several little moths, the larvae of which are too 
well known to housekeepers by reason of their eating clothing, furs, 
carpets, etc.., the name applying as appropriately to others. This in¬ 
sect is described in Packard’s Guide as T. Jiavifrontilla , of Linnaeus, 
but Chambers’ recent classification gives the name I have given. 
