LEPIDOPTERA. 3G1 



(Anacampsis cercalella), both of which are to be included among 

 the Yponomeutians. In the cabinet of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History the cases, containing the large and beautiful col- 

 lection of shells, were formerly lined with fine white flannel. In 

 this some moths soon established themselves, multiplied very 

 fast, and, in the course of a few years, did so much damage that 

 it became necessary entirely to remove the moth-eaten linings. 

 In their winged state these moths were of a light buff color, with 

 the lustre of satin, and had a thick orange-colored tuft on the 

 forehead ; the wings were deeply fringed, and the first pair were 

 lance-shaped, and expanded rather more than half an inch. This 

 species agrees very well with the description given, by the old 

 naturalists, of the Tinea flavifrontella,* or the orange-fronted 

 Tinea, and with Wood's figure of Tinea destructor, the destroy- 

 er. Should it prove to be different from these, it may be named 

 the satin-buff moth. Objects of natural history are very apt to 

 be injured by another moth, closely resembling the foregoing, and 

 differing from it chiefly in being somewhat smaller, and in having 

 the hind-wings tinged with gray. Chocolate, as Reaumur has re- 

 marked, is devoured by another Tinea, whose little silken cases 

 are often seen between the cakes, and I have also found them in 

 chocolate put up in tin cases. Other articles of food are also de- 

 voured by some of these Tinere, and even our books are not 

 spared by them. 



Mention has been made of two kinds of grain-moths, and an 

 account of them may be expected. Before entering upon their 

 history it will be well to point out some of the peculiarities of the 

 Tineans, and state what are the. means to be employed for pre- 

 serving clothes and other household stuffs from their attacks. 

 The Tineans, in the winged state, have four short and slender 

 feelers, a thick tuft on the forehead, and very narrow wings, which 

 are deeply fringed. They lay their eggs in the spring, in May 

 and June, and die immediately afterwards. The eggs (according 

 to Latreille and Duponchel, from whose works the following re- 

 marks are chiefly extracted) are hatched in fifteen days, and the 

 little whitish caterpillars or moth-worms proceeding therefrom im- 



* Not the Butia jlavifronlclla of the English entomologists. 



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