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The third species of clothes moth (Tineola hiselliella Linn.) ex- 

 pands about half an inch. The head is of a dull ochre-yellow color, 

 and the forewings are pale ochre-yellow without any spots. The 

 hind wings are a shade lighter than the fore wings. 



The larva is white with a light-brown head. It does not construct 

 a case, but before transforming into a pupa, it forms a kind of loose 

 cocoon from portions of the substance upon which it feeds : — woolen 

 stutfs, Furs, feathers, horse-hair, linings of furniture, dried animals 

 and plants. 



REMEDIES. 



Reaumur, more than one hundred and fifty years ago, made quite 

 extensive researches on clothes moths ; and, observing that they 

 never attacked the wool and hair on living animals, he inferred that 

 the natural odor of the wool or of the oily matter in it was distasteful 

 to them. He, therefore, rubbed various garments with the wool of 

 fresh pelts, and also wet other garments with the water in which 

 wool had been washed, and found that they were never attacked by 

 moths. 



He also experimented with tobacco smoke and the odors of spirits 

 of turpentine, and found that both of these were destructive to the 

 moths, but it was necessary to close the rooms very tightly and keep 

 the fumes very dense in them for twenty-four hours, to obtain satis- 

 factory results. 



I have always found that any material subject to the attacks of 

 moths may be preserved from them if packed away with sprigs of 

 cedar between the folds. The odor of cedar is so disagreeable to 

 them that they will not deposit their eggs where this odor is at all 

 strong. Chests of cedar or closets finished in the same wood will 

 protect clothing from moths as long as the odor is strong, but this is 

 lost with age, and then they are no protection. It must be remember- 

 ed that the odor of cedar, camphor, etc., only prevents the moth from 

 laying her eggs on the fabrics, but if the eggs are laid before the 

 garments are packed away with cedar, etc., the odor will not prevent 

 the hatching of the eggs nor the destructive work of the larvje after- 

 wards. 



Clothing may also be protected from moths by packing it in bags 

 made of either stout paper or cotton cloth, if made perfectly tight, 

 but this must be- done before the moths appear on the wing in the 

 spring. 



