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THE STUDY OF INSECTS. 
phod'e-rus pol-i-ta'na).—One of the most interesting of Tor- 
tricid nests occurs commonly on white pine. Each nest 
consists of from six to ten leaves drawn together so as to 
form a tube, and is lined within with silk. This tube serves 
as a protection to the larva, from which it comes out to feed 
upon the ends of the very leaves of which the tube is com¬ 
posed; in this way the tube is shortened. We bred the 
moth from nests collected at Ithaca, New York; but we 
have found similar nests as far south as Florida. The moth 
expands one half inch. Its head, thorax, and fore wings are 
of a dull rust-red color, with two oblique paler bands cross¬ 
ing the fore wings, one a little before the middle, the other 
beyond, parallel to it. 
Superfamily TlNElNA (Tin-e-i'na). 
The Tineids {Tin'e-ids). 
The Tineids are nearly all minute moths with narrow 
wings, which are bordered with wide fringes. A few species 
are of considerable size, and have broader wings, with nar¬ 
rower fringes. 
The narrow-winged forms can be distinguished from all 
other moths by the shape of the wings and the great width 
of the fringes. The moths figured below (Figs. 298, 299, 
300, 302) illustrate this. It should be remembered that in 
each of these figures the insect 
is represented greatly enlarged; 
in most cases the size of the 
insect is represented by a hair¬ 
line near the figure. 
The wide-winged forms are 
most surely distinguished by 
the venation of the wings. In 
its more general features the 
venation of the wings in this 
family is similar to that of the Tortricids; it differs, how- 
