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The yellow larva? first spoken of are about as numerous as the green ones, and 
acquire a pale obscure red color, dusted over with a fine whitish powder. They 
change to pupa;, which are known by having a scale on each side of the body, which 
is the sheath in which the future wing is enveloped at this period. These scales 
are pale yellowish, their tips dusky. The pupa) are 0.06 in length, dull red and 
dusted over with a glancous powder, oval and less plump and convex above than 
when they were in the larva state; their heads are dusky, antenna? obscure yellow 
with dusky tips reaching to the base of the wing scales, legs dusky, the thighs except 
at their tips, and also the anterior shanks obscure pallid. 
The winged females which come from these pup® are scarcely 0.0G in Ungth, 
and to the tips of their wings 0.10. They are black, the abdomen dull lurid green, 
with black punctures and dots along each side, and three black bands at the tip 
and opposite these on the under side a transverse black spot. The nectaries, legs 
and antennae are similar to those of the wingless female. 
AFFECTING THE STORED GRAIN AND MEAL. 
In stale Indian meal and emptying-cakes made thereof; a soft white worm 
half an inch long, with a brownish yellow head and polished yellowish 
white spot above on the neck, and on the last segment. 
The Indian meal moth, Tinea Zete, new species (Plate 4, fig. 1). 
Our housewives are sometimes vexed with finding their 
store of emptying cakes, which are used for exciting fermenta¬ 
tion in dough, invaded and spoiled by worms. If the bag or 
box in which these cakes are kept happens at any time to be 
left open, the winged moths from which these worms proceed 
are liable to find their way into it, and scatter their eggs through 
the cakes, so that the whole of them are at a subsequent day 
discovered to be infested with worms. As Indian meal is the 
chief ingredient in these cakes, I infer that to be the favorite 
food of this insect, and that it might therefore exclaim, with the 
enraptured Barlow in his Ilasty-pudding, 
“All my bones were made of Indian corn— 
Delicious grain!” 
More particularly where the meal of maize has been long kept 
and has become stale, I suspect this insect will be apt to infest 
it. But it is only in the situation first spoken of that I have as 
yet met with it. 
The worms appear to have the same habits with the larva of the 
grain moth or the wolf, Tinea granella. They form cylindrical 
burrows through the substance on which they feed, lining the 
