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pop corn, put up by^R. H. Wright, Albany, X. Y.. and obtained 

 for retail in Orono from a wholesale house 

 in Bangor. As this is one of the most 

 destructive insects known to wheat, oats, 

 barley and Indian corn, it seems desirable 

 that attention be called to it. Upon opening 

 the boxes swarms of full fledged moths were 

 found on the top of the corn, and made their 

 escape into the room. The kernels of corn 

 each contained small circular holes, and the 

 most of the starchy matter was eaten, leav- 

 ing only the shell. Mixed with the corn 

 were a large number of dead moths. The 

 party who found the moths let the live ones 

 from several boxes of corn escape in the 

 store, and when I told him it was a bad pest, 

 he said they would all die, as the store was 

 cold nights, and that he had burned all the 

 corn. Though this insect was introduced 

 from France, and has done more damage 

 South than North, yet it is undaunted by a 

 cold climate, and would be capable of doing 

 much damage in stored grain in Maine. This 

 insect was abundant in the grain exhibits at 

 he TTorld's Fair the past season. To burn 

 the corn after the moths had all escaped was 

 useless. That this insect may be better 

 mown, so that precautions can be taken 

 agaifst it. we give the following regarding 

 its life history : 



Perfect insect, a small moth with pointed 

 fe^ wings, that spread between a half and three- 

 quarters of an inch. Fore-wing pale shining 

 ochre, with a grayish or brownish gray streak 

 in the folds at the base, and a few scales of 

 the same color toward the tip of the wing on 

 the margin. Hind wings grayish ochre, and 

 voi^Tof the An-bearing a fringe of the same color on the 

 IKeSeu^^'^^'border. Larva, a smooth, white worm, 

 attacking the kernels, and consuming the inside, leaving the shell, 

 and when full fed transforming to the pupa state in the grain, and 

 finally emerging as a moth through a small hole in the kernel. 



