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sides of this passage with fine threads like cobweb. They crawl 
over a smooth surface with facility but not rapidly, and when 
annoyed they wriggle slightly and walk backwards. They grow 
to the length of half an inch, and are of a cylindrical form, 
slightly broadest in the middle. They are dull white, soft 
and flesli-like, the sutures between the segments but slightly 
marked and not constricted. Their heads are of a hard liorn-like 
consistence, shining, brownish-yellow. The second segment or 
neck on its upper side is also horny, shining, yellowish-white; 
and on the top of the last segment is a spot similar to this. 
They are sixteen-footed, the prolegs being short, and their minute 
hooks form a brown ring around their soles. The surface shows 
a few scattering hairs, which on the sides arise from very faint 
smooth wart-like dots. 
The pupa or chrysalis is 0.30 long, pale yellow or yellowish 
white, its sutures marked by fine slender chestnut brown lines, 
and the eyes prominent, rather large and black. It lies within a 
slight cocoon which is attached to the side of the bag within 
which the larva has been reared. The cocoon is formed of fine 
snow-white silken threads, appearing like a coating of mildew, 
through which the chrysalis is very visible. 
The winged moth moves with frequent skips as it is walking 
along. It crawls out of its lurking place, till it sees its way 
clear from any obstruction, when it spreads its wings and flies 
away, hovering about the shady corners of the room and sustain¬ 
ing itself some time upon the wing without alighting. It is des¬ 
titute of any marks or spots by which to distinguish it, being 
merely of a dull gray or blackish color with the basal third of 
the fore wings whitish. It pertains to the Family Tineidje of 
the Order Lepidoptera, and appears to coincide more close]}' 
with the genus Tinea than any other which has been cha¬ 
racterised by systematic writers, although in the greater 
length of its spiral tongue and of its body it does not fully agree 
with the typical species of this genus. 
The Indian-meal motu, Tinea Zece, (plate 4, flg. 1) is about 0.35 in length 
|° tip of its abdomen and closed wings, and when the latter are spread 
is from half an inch to 0.00 in width. It has a slightly greasy appearance, and 
Us t° re wings are obscure gray or blackish, their basal third dull white or cream 
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