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Moths or Lepidoptera. 
Besides the species mentioned on p. 100 , two other small moth 
larvae occur, namely, Tinea cloacella and Laverna lactcella, but not to 
any extent. 
As seen in the following extract from the Transactions of the 
Entomological Society of London (vol. i., p. 55 of the Proceedings, 
1835), an Acarus (sp. ?), A tropics lignarius , Termites and Blattidae, 
or Cockroaches, also attack corks. 
Account of the Attacks of Various Insects upon Wine Corks. 
By S. S. Saunders, Esq., M.E.S. 
The author states that a friend having occasion to remove his stock 
of wine from one cellar to another, found the corks of many of the 
bottles injured so that the wine had leaked, occasionally so much 
only remaining as was retained in the hollow of the bottles when 
lying down. The damage was confined to the bottles containing 
Shiraz (a Persian wine), and some Hock, which had been twenty 
years in the cellar. The corks of these bottles, although placed 
apart, were injured, the intervening descriptions of wine being 
untouched. On examining the corks, four species of insects were 
found in them, Mycetcea hirta , Cryptophagus cellar is, a minute Acarus, 
and Atropus lignarius. 
The Acarus was found in some abundance within the crevices 
of the corks of both wines, and one specimen, which the author 
observed undisturbed for a length of time under a microscope, 
appeared to be engaged in burrowing into the cork, for which 
purpose the recurved claw at the extremity of the anterior legs 
appears adapted. The Atropos lignarius was not in any great 
abuu dance, and was observed running about the outside of the corks, 
none being found within them. Of the Cryptophagus cellaris a single 
specimen was alone observed among some corks which had been 
extracted and placed in a box during several months. A single 
specimen of Mycetcea hirta was likewise only observed, although in 
the account which Mr. Curtis has published of this genus (to which 
the author refers) it is stated that they were found in considerable 
abundance, and were also accompanied by a minute Acarus; the 
damage to the corks being supposed by Mr. Curtis to be caused by 
the larvae of a moth. 
It was further mentioned that the tops of the hock corks were 
covered with a coating of wax ; but, as this did not extend down to 
the bottle, serving only as a mark, it was not serviceable in 
