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but, probably, much yet remains to be learn- 

 ed concerning both. 



The moth, when first discovered by the 

 common observer, is a white worm or mag- 

 got, with a redish crusted head, and varies in 

 size according to its livincr. Those which 

 have full and unmolested access to the con- 

 tents of a hive, will frequently grow as large 

 as a turkey-quill, and an inch and a half in 

 length. Others are scarcely an inch in length 

 when full grown. They have sixteen short 

 legs, and taper each way from the centre of 

 their bodies to their head and exterior or ab- 

 domen. 



The worms, like the silk-worm, wind them- 

 selves into a cocoon, and pass the dormant 

 (chrysalis) state of their existence, and in a 

 few days come out of their silken cases per- 

 fect winged insects or millers, an^ are soon 

 ready to deposit their eggs, from which anoth- 

 er crop will be raised. 



The miller, or perfect moth, is of a grayish 

 color, from three-fourths of an inch to an inch 

 in length. They usually lie perf.'cily still in 



