HONEY-COMB MOTHS. 193 



Not long ago, one of my friends, who was about to deliver 

 a lecture on the structure of the bee's cell, and who had got 

 together a collection of combs for the purpose of illustration, 

 came to me in dire distress, and showed me the combs, all 

 covered with t'he tunnels of the Galleria moth. The damage 

 which they had done was very great, but their presence was 

 discovered in tii^ie to prevent them from utterly destroying 

 the specimens. After all the caterpillars that could be captured 

 had been destroyed, a wide-mouthed bottle containing spirit of 

 turpentine was placed in the box, and speedily killed the sur- 

 vivors, while a bath in a solution of corrosive sublimate pro- 

 tected the remaining combs against a future brood of GaUeria 

 moth. 



Although there are stiU in my list many names of burrowing 

 insects which have not yet been described, it is necessary that 

 we should take our leave of the buiTowers, and proceed to the 

 next chapter. 



