Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 147a.—Tapestry-moth {T. tapetzella); xS%; after Riley. Figure 148.—Portion of leaf of Sweet-potato, showing mines of leaf-miner ; x 1^^ ;phot. A. H. V. but lives in a silken web on the substance that it is destroying. Itis partial to furs and feathers, but eats also woolen and hair moth has uniform, pale ochreous yellow fore wings. A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islaiids. 781 Tapestry-motli; Txibe-dicelling Clothes-moth. [Tricliojjhaga, orTinea, tapetzella L.) Figure 147a. This destructive moth doubtless also occurs, bu

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Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 147a.—Tapestry-moth {T. tapetzella); xS%; after Riley. Figure 148.—Portion of leaf of Sweet-potato, showing mines of leaf-miner ; x 1^^ ;phot. A. H. V. but lives in a silken web on the substance that it is destroying. Itis partial to furs and feathers, but eats also woolen and hair moth has uniform, pale ochreous yellow fore wings. A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islaiids. 781 Tapestry-motli; Txibe-dicelling Clothes-moth. [Tricliojjhaga, orTinea, tapetzella L.) Figure 147a. This destructive moth doubtless also occurs, but we did not obtainit. Its tube is not a portable case, but rather a long, crooked tunnelor gallery. The moth has the basal half of the fore wings black ;the distal half white. Leaf-miner of Sweet Potato. (fBedellia minor Busck, t. Busck.)Figure 148. A minute tineid, about S*^ long, plain silvery, with the tips ofthe wings curved upward and fringed with long scales, whose larvamines in the leaves of sweet potato, causing irregular, blister-like,yellowi

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