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GROUP IV. 
The caterpillars belonging to this group have 16 legs, and they 
live in portable or stationery leafen or silken cases or tubes; many 
of them feed upon the leaves of trees, but a few feed upon honey¬ 
combs, old hay, flour, etc. 
SYNOPSIS OF GROUP IV. 
Body as if cut off obliquely behind. 1 
Body rounded behind. 
Head black. 2 
Head reddish or yellowish-brown. 
Larva lives on trees. 8 
Larva lives in old hay, flour, etc. 4 
1— Peropliora melsheimerii .—Body reddish brown, thickly covered with 
minute wiiite or yellowish warts; a faint dorsal and sub-dorsal yel¬ 
lowish line; the posterior end of the body appears to be obliquely 
cut off, at which place there is a kind of grayish plate; cervical 
shield brownish black, with a wdiite dorsal line; head roughened, 
brownish-black; length 1^ inches. Feeds on Oak, living in a port¬ 
able leafen case. August to May. Assumes the chrysalis form in its 
case. (D. W. Coquillett.) 
2— Coleophora malivorella .—Body pale yellowish, sometimes with a 
faint roseate hue; segments 1 and 3 with a rough blackish stigmatal 
spot; segment 2 with a similar spot, and with 2 narrow black dorsal spots 
and a sub-dorsal yellowish spot; head large, rough, black; last 2 
segments covered with brown granulations and furnished with rather 
long hairs; length less than J inch. Lives in a pistol-shaped case 
on the leaves, buds and young fruit of the Apple. September to 
June. (C. Y. Riley.) 
