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dwelling is to feed the infested flour, meal, or other cereal 

 to stock and then to brush down all the larvae and pupas 

 and burn them. Then spray the walls of the storage bins 

 thoroughly with kerosene oil, being sure to force it into 

 all the cracks and crevices of the walls and floors. This 

 will kill eggs, larvae, and pupae. With care and persistence 

 this moth can be exterminated from the house, but the 

 pantry is liable to be reinfested with it at any time for, as 

 we have said, it is present in most flour mills and there 

 is little hope of its ever being exterminated. 



References to Economic Literature on the Mediterranean 



Flour Moth 



1879. Zeller, P. C. — Ephestia kiihniella n. sp. Stettiner Entomo- 



logische Zeitung, pp. 466-471. 

 1887. Lintner, J. A. — Ephestia kiihniella as a pest in mills. 



N. Y. State Mus. of Nat. Hist., 39th. An. Rept., p. 99. 



1893. Danysz, J. — Ephestia kiihniella, parasite des bles, des far- 

 ines, et des biscuits. Histoire Naturelle du Parasite et Moyens 

 de le detruire. Memoires du Laboratoire de Parasitologic 

 Vegetale de la Bourse de Commerce, Vol. 1, Paris. 



1894. Johnson, W. G. — The Mediterranean flour moth. Appen- 

 dix to the nineteenth report of the State Entomologist of Illinois. 



1896. Chittenden, F. H. — Development of the Mediterranean 



flour moth. Bull. 6, n.s., Bu. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agri., pp. 85-88. 

 1896. Quaintance, A. L. — The Mediterranean flour-moth. Bull. 



36, Fla. Expt. Stat., p. 363. 

 1904. Washburn, F. L. — The Mediterranean flour moth. Special 



Rept. of the State Ent. of Minn., St. Anthony Park, Minn. 

 1910. Chittenden, F. H. — Control of the Mediterranean flour 



moth by hydrocyanic acid gas fumigation. Circ. 112, Bu. Ent., 



U. S. Dept. Agri. 

 For further references to literature on this insect see the paper of 

 Johnson referred to above. 



