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A. E. Verritt — The Bermuda Islands. 



grain, and ship-bread, and often do great damage to stores of pro- 

 visions in forts, ships, and warehouses, as well as in flour-mills. 



Plodia interpunctella lias the wings light, dull gray, the distal 

 part of the fore wings brownish red or coppery. 



Common Clothes- moth. ( Tinea flav if rontella Pack, or pellionella I..) 



Figure 146. 



Very abundant and destructive in houses. The larva lives in a 

 portable tube usually made of wool fibres. 



147 



Figure 146. — Clothes -moth. {Tinea flaoifrontella) ; a, imago; b, larva; c, porta- 

 ble ease. Figure 147. — Tapestry-moth (Tineola biselliella), x '3; after Riley. 

 First from Webster's International Dictionary. 



Tapestry -moth ; Webbing-moth. [Tinea, or Tineola, biselliella.) 



Figure 147. 



Less common than the last, but capable of doing great damage to 

 woolens, furs, and feathers. Its larva does not make a portable tube, 



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Figure 147cr. — Tapestry-moth ('/'. tapetzella)', x :i ! 4 ; after Riley. Figure 14S. — 

 Portion of leaf of Sweet-potato, showing mines of leaf -miner ; xl 1 ., '; 

 phot. A. H. V. 



but lives in a silken web on the substance that it is destroying. It 

 is partial to furs and feathers, but eats also woolen and hair goods. 

 The moth has uniform, pale ochreous yellow fore wings. 



