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iisuall}' a fire, and the moss above them is occasionally 

 flamped. — {Rev.) A. H. Wratislaw ; School Hall, Bury St. 

 Edmunds^ March 1, 1866. 



Mould on Le/ndoplera. — A short time ago I wrote a letter 

 to the ' Naturalist,' soliciting an effectual remedy for stop- 

 ping mould on the wings of Lepidoplera (Nat. ii. 255) ; but 

 failing to obtain a reply frouj any of ils contributors, I sub- 

 nut the two following important queries to the readers of the 

 ' Entomologist,' some of whom may have had, like me, but it 

 is to be hoped with better luck, to contend with this dis- 

 heartening infection, — How is mould to be got rid of? and 

 when got rid of, how is it to be kept clear ? I know that 

 dampness is a certain forerunner of mould, but I have stu- 

 diously avoided this, keeping my cabinet in a dry, airy place, 

 free from all dampness, with a moderate temperature. 1 have 

 lately been in the habit of keeping a small open phial of ben- 

 zine in my cabinet, as a preventative against mites. May not 

 this, when it has undergone evaporation, settle on the wings 

 of the insects, and thus cause them to become moist, and 

 eventually mildewed? — F. Wilkinson ; Hiyh Streel, Market 

 HiirborouifJi, February 28, 1866. 



The Weevil in Granaries. — I notice remarks (Entnm. iii. 

 29) about the weevil, and would observe that 1 never knew 

 them so plentiful (in my granaries at any rate) as they were 

 last year. In May I stored 600 quarters of wheat : finding 

 it much infested with weevil, I shipped 300 quarters in Sep- 

 tember, and took in 60 quarters of new wheat. This seemed 

 to make matters worse ; so in December 1 put the whole 

 through a machine, and, besides a great quantity of dust, 

 sixteen bushels of weevils were collected. I send you a 

 box full : are they the same as those infesting the barley ? 

 Do you think the putting the old wheat and the new (the 

 60 quarters) together was the cause of the increase of weevil, 

 or whether it was through the continuance of the hot weather? 

 I would observe that the whole of the wheat, from the lime it 

 was stored till last month, when the bulk was shipped, had 

 been turned every week. — David John French ; Chatham, 

 February 24, 1866. 



[If the grain, whether wheat or barley, were Intended for 

 seed, I believe there would be no great difficulty in destroy- 

 ing the weevils by poison ; but supposing the grain intended 



