Ornix rhodophagella. Rose Moth. Mr. Collar says that - "In early spring, as soon as the rose tree begins to bud, if the new leaf-shoots are closely examined, a little brownish seed is found here and there attached to them, in which a worm - the larva of a small moth, is concealed, which gnaws the tender shoots. When it has devoured one shoot it removes, with its house, and attacks another; and thus, in a short time, one of these larva; can strip a whole branch of its shoots. The larva, which lives in the little case, is only a few lines long, yellow, with a black head, and black spotted collar. It undergoes pupation in its case.

"The moth appears at the end of May. It is only three lines long, carries it wings very close to its body - almost wrapped round it. The whole body is silvery shining gray, the upper wings strewed with minute black dots, deeply fringed at the posterior edge. The moth lays her eggs in May on the buds of the rose tree, and the caterpillars are hatched at the end of June.

They immediately form for themselves small cases of parts of the leaves, and pass the winter in them at the root of the rose-tree".