388 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO VEGETATION. 



telhi), which is very destructive to wool and fabrics made of 

 this material, and the Angoumois grain-moth {Butalis cerea- 

 lella), both of which are to be included among the Ypono- 

 meutians. In the cabinet of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History the cases, containing the large and beautiful collection 

 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 destroyer. 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 remarked, is devoured 

 by another Tinea, whose little silken cases are often seen be- 

 tween the cakes, and I have also found them in chocolate put 

 up in tin cases. Other articles of food are also devoured by 

 some of these Tinese, and even our books are not spared by 

 them. 



The Tineans, in the winged state, have four short and slen- 

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

 which are deeply fringed. They lay their eggs mostly in the 

 spring, in May and June, and die immediately afterwards. 

 The eggs (according to Latreille and Duponchel, from whose 

 works the following remarks are chiefly extracted) are hatched 

 in fifteen days, and the little whitish caterpillars or moth- 

 worms proceeding therefrom immediately begin to gnaw the 

 substances within their reach, and cover themselves with the 



* Not the Batia flavifrontella of the English entomologists. 



