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cloth of the furniture with benzine and soaking the parts where the 
larvae are with the same every now and then. The benzine if good 
will do no harm to tapestry, but you must not put it on polished 
woodwork as it removes the polish.* The benzine will keep the 
moths off for some time. For furs and fabrics in drawers and boxes 
naphthalene (lumps) put with the objects will keep the moth off. 
burs, etc., should be frequently shaken and exposed to sunlight in 
May and June. 
“ Nothing but fumigating the rooms with sulphur, or bisulphide 
ol carbon, will destroy the moths. The former will damage the gilt 
ot picture frames, etc., and metal work; the latter is highly 
inflammable and must be used with care. I should advise in your 
case the use ol benzine, which you can obtain from any chemists.” 
The Household Mite. 
( Glyciphagus domesticus.) 
This pest (Fig. 21) referred to in the First Beport (p. 120) and 
the allied G. spinipes, seem to be widely distributed both in 
piivate houses and warehouses. A correspondent living at Kensington 
A, Glyciphagus domesticus, De Geer. 
(After Albert Michael.) 
B, G. spinipes, Koch. 
Crescent, W., came to the Museum for information concerning this 
pest, which had been introduced into his house in some rush-bottom 
* Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse tells me good benzine will not harm French polish. 
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