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armed Avith yellowish tubercles which bear tufts of yellowish or 

 brownish hairs. When ready to transform the hairs are woven with 

 silk into a cocoon. The jjerfect insect called "The White Miller" 

 appears in April or Maj*. It expands nearly two inches and is pure 

 white with a few black spots. 



Remedies. 



Hand-picking is the best method to keep them in check. The best 



time to destroy them is while the young are feeding in company and 

 before much damage to the foliage is done. 



THE TAPESTEY MOTH. 

 Tinea Tapetzella, L. 

 Order Lepidoptera. Family Tixeidae. 



A specimen of the above named cloths moth was received from 

 Mrs. Andrews of Augusta. It was reported as eatingholes in a carpet 

 and a shawl. This is the rarest clothes moth found in Maine. Be- 

 sides the above species that makes channels through cloth in which it 

 works and does not make a case out of the fragment of the cloth, 

 are two others which are quite common, viz: Tinea pelionella, L., which 

 make little cases out of the cloth frag'ments in which it works, 

 and Tinea Mselliella, which spins a cocoon found under the infected 

 carpet. 



The above mentioned species on account of its rarety is not likely to 

 become much of a pest. 



