. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . ich countryit seems to be a native. The families Xylorietidse, (Eeophoridse, Blastobasidse and Elaehistidse are generally small families of small insects. Their different peculiar-ities have caused them to be assigned to separate families, but, except tothe systematic entomologist, they are of little interest. In the family Tineidae. however, we have some members which areof direct interest to us. This is a very large family, generally of smallmoths, although some of them at
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . ich countryit seems to be a native. The families Xylorietidse, (Eeophoridse, Blastobasidse and Elaehistidse are generally small families of small insects. Their different peculiar-ities have caused them to be assigned to separate families, but, except tothe systematic entomologist, they are of little interest. In the family Tineidae. however, we have some members which areof direct interest to us. This is a very large family, generally of smallmoths, although some of them attain moderate size. These insectshave narrow wings bordered with a fringe, and some of them, althoughexceedingly small, are very beautiful. Some of the members of thisfamily are so minute that they attain their full growth and undergotheir metamorphosis within the tissue of the leaves in which they of them, when they appear in great numbers, are very it is considered that the leaves of trees are often no thicker thana sheet of paper, and that they consist of an upper and a lower surface,. ENTOMOLOGY IN OUTLINE—DIPTERA. ? 115 or skin, and that on the fleshy part of the leaves, between these twolayers, these insects feed and live and pass through all their changes,it will be understood how minute they, or some of them, are. It is inthis family, too, that we find that greatestof all pests to the careful housewife, theclothes-moth (Tineola bisselliella). Thisis not the only culprit, however, for whileto the disgusted housewife, who finds herwoolens eaten full of holes, there is butone clothes-moth, the entomologist recog-nizes several species, all guilty of like FIG71 a^)%£*£™ {Cole°Phoradestruction. Among these are the case-bearing clothes-moth (T. pellionella), the tube-building clothes-moth(T. tapetzella), and the naked clothes-moth (T. bisselliella), mentionedabove. The family Hepialidse is a small one, composed of large or moderatesized moths
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