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myself to a few remarks, and refer the reader for further 

 particulars to these works. Kollar states that there is but 

 one sure method of clearing bee-hives of the moth, and this 

 is to look for and destroy the caterpillars or moth-worms 

 and the chrysalids ; and he advises that the hives should 

 be examined, for this purpose, once a week, and that all 

 the webs and cocoons, with the insects in them, should be 

 taken out and destroyed. At all events, the examination 

 ought to be made every year, early in September, when 

 the cocoons will be found in greater numbers than at any 

 other time, and should be carefvilly removed and burned. 

 The winged moths are very fond of sweets ; and if shallow 

 vessels, containing a mixture of honey or sugar, with vin- 

 egar and water, are placed near the bee-house in the even- 

 ing, the moths will get into them and be drowned. In this 

 way great numbers may be caught every night. Several 

 kinds of hives and bee-houses have been contrived and rec- 

 ommended, for the purpose of keeping out the bee-moth ; 

 but it does not appear that any of them entirely supersede 

 the necessity for the measures above recommended. 



The various kinds of destructive moths found in houses, 

 stores, barns, granaries, and mills, are mostly very small 

 insects ; the largest of them, when arrived at maturity, ex- 

 panding their wings only about eight tenths of an inch. 

 The ravages of some of these little creatures are too well 

 known to need a particular description. Among them may 

 be mentioned the clothes-moth ( Tinea vestianella), the ta- 

 pestry or carpet-moth (^T. tapetzdla), the fur-moth (^T. pel- 

 lionellci), the hair-moth (Tl CrineUa), and the grain-moth 

 (Tl granella), with some others, belonging to a group which 

 may be called Tineans (^Tinead^e) ; also the pack-moth 

 QAnacconpsis sarciteUci), Avhich is 'very destructive to wool 

 and fabrics made of this material, and the Angoumois grain- 

 moth (^Butalis cerealella), both of Avhich are to be included 

 among the Yponomeutians. In the cabinet of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, the cases containing the large 



