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two species are developed to more than four times the 

 length of its body, from which character it derives its 

 popular name of "Long Horn," and a wonderfully 

 beautiful object it is under the microscope. 



The Clothes Moth (Tinea tapetzelld) requires no 

 description, as very few heads of families, we imagine, 

 can be ignorant of the fact that it may be met with, 

 and its economy leisurely studied in the best regulated 

 establishments. It not only makes food of our gar- 

 ments, but, utterly indifferent to the caprices of 

 fashion, continues to this day to cut out, make up, 

 and wear its own apparel exactly as it has been 

 known to do ever since it received its entomological 

 name. Galleria cereana we have met with in the 

 winged state, but for reasons of our own we have 

 never sought, or even availed ourselves of an op- 

 portunity of intruding on the privacy of its larva. It 

 is not often that we have been permitted to approach 

 a well-stocked beehive in summer with impunity, but 

 this dainty fellow actually passes the early stages of 

 his existence among the bees within the hive itself, 

 and there, literally surrounded by the " sweets of life" 

 from his earliest infancy, he helps himself liberally 

 until he has attained his full development. We have 

 seen a portion of honey-comb containing several empty 

 cocoons of this species, and so disfigured by the web 

 spun by its larvae, that it had been rendered quite 

 useless to its lawful owners. We have been less 

 scrupulous with the larvae of the Turnip diamond- 

 backed Moth (Cerostoma Xylostella), as will be shown 

 in the following extract from a letter of ours to the 

 late Mr. Curtis, published in the "Journal of the 

 Royal Geographical Society" in 1842. 



" The little moth which I have sent is one from a 

 host of small green caterpillars, which have been ex- 

 citing some surprise here this summer. About the 

 beginning of August, I was directed to a field of 

 turnips said to be infested by the 'niggers,' they 



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