368 A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 780 
grain, and ship-bread, and often do great damage to stores of pro- 
visions in forts, ships, and warehouses, as well as in flour-mills. 
Plodia interpunctella has the wings light, dull gray, the distal 
part of the fore wings brownish red or coppery. 
Common Clothes-moth. (Tinea flavifrontella Pack. or pellionella 1.) - 
Ficure 146. 
Very abundant and destructive in houses. The larva lives in a 
portable tube usually made of wool fibres. 
147 
146 
Figure 146.—Clothes-moth (Tinea flavifrontella); a, imago; 6b, larva; c, porta- 
ble case. Figure 147.—Tapestry-moth (Tineola biselliella), x3; after Riley. 
First from Webster’s International Dictionary. 
Tapestry-moth ; Webbing-moth. (Tinea, or Tineola, biselliella.) 
FieurE 147. 
Less common than the last, but capable of doing great damage to 
woolens, furs, and feathers. Its larva does not make a portable tube, 
147a 148 
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tar Sa 
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Figure 147a.—Tapestry-moth (T. tapetzella); x 324; after Riley. Figure 148.— 
Portion of leaf of Sweet-potato, showing mines of leaf-miner; x 114 ; 
phot. A. H. V. 
but lives in a silken web on the substance that it is destroying. It 
is partial to furs and feathers, but eats also woolen and hair goods. 
The moth has uniform, pale ochreous yellow fore wings. 
