494 LEPIDOPTERA. 



and beautiful collection of shells were formerly lined with 

 fine white flannel. In this some moths soon established 

 themselves, multiplied very fast, and, in the course of a 

 few years, did so much damage that it became necessary 

 entirely to remove the moth-eaten 



Fig. 241. . J 



linings. In their winded state these 



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moths (Fig. 241) were of a light 

 buff color, with the lustre of satin, 

 and had a thick orange-colored tuft 



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on the forehead ; the wings were 

 deeply fringed, and the first pair were 



lance-shaped, and expanded rather more than half an inch. 



This species agrees very well with the description given, 

 by the old naturalists, of the Tinea 



Fig. 242. 



flavifrontella* (Fig. 242, larva, natural 

 size and magnified), or the orange- 

 fronted Tinea, and with Wood's fig- 

 ure of Tinea destructor, the destroyer. 

 Should it prove to be different from these, it may be named 

 the satin-buff moth. Objects of natural history are very 

 apt to be injured by another moth, closely resembling the 

 foregoing, and differing from it chiefly in b^ing somewhat 

 smaller, and in having the hind wings tinged with gray. 

 Chocolate, as Reaumur has remarked, is devoured by an- 

 other Tinea, whose little silken cases are often seen between 

 the cakes, and I have also found them in chocolate put up 

 in tin cases. Other articles of food are also devoured by 

 some of these TineaB, and even our books are not spared 

 by them. 



The Tineans, in the winged state, have four short and 

 slender feelers, a thick tuft on the forehead, and very nar- 

 row wings, which are deeply fringed. They lay their eggs 

 mostly in the spring, in May and June, and die imme- 

 diately afterwards. The eggs (according to Latreille and 

 Duponchel, from whose works the following remarks are 



* Not the Batia flavifrontella of the English entomologists. 



