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myself to a few remarks, and refer the reader for further 
particulars to these works. Kollar states that there is hut 
one sure method of clearing bee-hives of the moth, and this 
is to look for and destroy the caterpillars or moth-worms 
and the chrysalids; and he advises that the hives should 
be examined, for this purpose, once a week, and that all 
the webs and cocoons, with the insects in them, should be 
taken out and destroyed. At all events, the examination 
ought to be made every year, early in September, when 
the. cocoons will be found in greater numbers than at any 
other time, and should be carefully removed and burned. 
The winged moths are very fond of sweets; and if shallow 
vessels, containing a mixture of honey or sugar, with vin¬ 
egar and water, are placed near the bec-house in the even¬ 
ing, the moths will get into them and be drowned. In this 
way great numbers may be caught every night. Several 
kinds of hives and bee-houses have been contrived and rec¬ 
ommended, for the purpose of keeping out the bee-moth; 
but it does not appear that any of them entirely supersede 
the necessity for the measures above recommended. 
The various kinds of destructive moths found in houses, 
stores, barns, granaries, and mills, are mostly very small 
insects ; the largest of them, when arrived at maturity, ex¬ 
panding their wings only about eight tenths of an inch. 
The ravacjes of some of these little creatures are too well 
known to need a particular description. Among them may 
be mentioned the clothes-moth {Tinea vestianella'), the ta¬ 
pestry or carpet-moth ( T. tapetzella')^ the fur-moth ( T. pel- 
lionella')^ the hair-moth {T. Crinelld)^ and the grain-moth 
{T, granella')^ with some others, belonging to a group which 
may be called Tineans (Tixeada:) ; also the pack-moth 
{Anacampsis sarcitella')^ which is very destructive to wool 
and fabrics made of this material, and the Angoumois grain- 
moth {Biitalis cerealella'), both of which are to be included 
among the Yponomeutians. In the cabinet of the Boston 
Society of Natural History, the cases containing the large 
