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scribed, and have observed seed-corn, hanging in the ears, to 

 have been attacked by insects of this kind, the empty chrysahds 

 of which remained sticking between the kernels ; but, for some 

 time past, no opportunity for further investigation has offered 

 itself. 



There is another grain-moth, which, at various times, has been 

 found to be more destructive in granaries, in some provinces of 

 France, than the preceding kind. It is the Angoumois moth 

 (Anacampsis 1 cerealella), an insect evidently belonging to the 

 family of yponomeutad^, or Yponomeutians. The winged moths 

 of this group have only two visible feelers, and these are gener- 

 ally long, slender, and curved *over their heads. Their narrow 

 wings most often overlap each other, and cover their backs hori- 

 zontally when shut. The Angoumois grain-moth probably be- 

 longs to the modern genus Anacampsis, a word derived from 

 the Greek, and signifying recurved, in allusion to the direction of 

 the feelers of the moths. It is stated in the " Introduction to 

 Entomology,"* by the Rev. Mr. Kirby and Mr. Spence, that 

 the insect under consideration is not yet named. This, however, 

 is a mistake ; for it was named Alucita cerealella^ by Olivier, f 

 as long ago as the year 1789. Olivier's name for it appears also 

 to have been overlooked by Latreille, who has given it that of 

 (Ecophora granella.X Moreover, the writers of the " Introduc- 

 tion" have extracted, from the works of Reaumur §, an account 

 of the habits of this insect, which they call Tinea Hordei and 

 Vpsolophus granellus, || without seeming to be aware that it is the 

 same as the Angoumois moth. In the year 1768, Colonel Ijan- 

 don Carter, of Sabine Hall, Virginia, communicated to the 

 American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia, some inter- 

 esting " Observations concerning the Fly-weevil that destroys 

 wheat." These were printed in the first volume IF of the " Trans- 



•^ Fifth edition, Vol. I., p. 172. 



t «' Encyclopedic Methodique. Hist. Nat. InsecteSj" Vol. IV., p. 121. See 

 also Guerin's edition of Tigny's " Histoire Nat. des Insectes," Vol. IX., p. 301. 

 I Cuvier's " Regne Animal," 2d. edition. 

 § " Memoires," II., p. 48G. 



II " Introduction to Entomology," Vol. I., p. 174. 

 TI Pago 274. 



