The Leaf Crumpler. 
(Phycis indigmella, 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 larva?; c, anterior part of larva; if, adult motb. 
[A brownish larva about three fifths of an inch long, living 
within a horn-lil .e 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- 
