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are short and thread-like, and there is a thick orange or 

 brown tuft on the forehead. The colours range from buff to 

 drab and dark gray. The eggs are laid in May and June (the 

 moth dying immediately afterwards), and hatch out in fifteen 

 days. The young worms at once proceed to work, gnawing 

 the substances within their reach, and covering themselves 

 with the fragments, which they shape into hollow rolls and 

 line with silk. These rolls are by some carried on their 

 backs as they move along, and by others fastened to the 

 substance they are feeding upon, and they are enlarged from 

 time to time by additions to the open extremities, and by 

 portions let into the sides, which are split open for this 

 purpose. In such ambush the worms carry on their work of 

 destruction through the summer, rest in seeming torpor 

 during the winter, and change to chrysalids early in the 

 spring. They transform again in twenty days, and issue from 

 their shelter as winged moths, to fly about in the evening till 

 they have paired, and are ready to lay eggs. Then follows 

 an invasion of dark closets, chests, and drawers, edges of 

 carpets, folds of curtains, and hanging garments; and the 

 foundation of a new colony is swifily laid. The early days 

 of June should herald vigorous and exterminating warfare 

 against these subtle pests. Closets, wardrobes, all receptacles 

 for clothing, should be emptied and laid open, their contents 

 thoroughly exposed to light and air, and well brushed and 

 shaken before being replaced, in old houses, much infested 

 with moths, all cracks in floors, wainscots, shelves, or 

 furniture, should be brushed over with spirits of turpentine. 

 Camphor or tobacco should be placed among all garments, 

 furs, plumes, &c., when laid aside for the summer. To 

 secure cloth linings of carriages from the attacks of moths 

 sponge them on both sides with a solution of corrosive 

 sublimate of mercury in alcohol, made just strong enough 

 not to leave a white mark on a black feather. Moths may be 

 killed by fumigating the article containing them with tobacco 

 or sulphur, or by putting it, if practicable, into an oven 

 heated to about 150® Fah. — C. V. Riley. [Extracted.] 



[71 vestianella, Steph., is a synonym of Tinea {Blabo- 

 pfiaiies) rusticella, Hb.; and T. crinella, Tr., of Tinea 

 {Tineola) biselliella, Hummel. — Ed.] 



"A Hunting Wasp. — The following interesting account of 

 a chase between a wasp and a spider has been forwarded to 

 ' Nature,' July, 1878, by Mr. Henry Cecil, who wrote to 

 ' Nature' on the subject (vol. xvii. p. 381): — 



