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crevice, using camphor or tobacco as before. Sometimes it is desirable 
to take up a carpet in the spring and not put it down again till fall. 
In this case it may be kept from these pests during the summer by 
thoroughly dusting after taking up and rolling into a bundle, around 
which a sheet is securely fastened, being careful that no place is left 
at the ends of the bundle for the little moths to gain an entrance to 
deposit their eggs. Camphor or tobacco should be used as in the first 
mentioned cases. Carpets that remain on the floor during the sum¬ 
mer will not be troubled if they are regularly and thoroughly swept, 
especially if tobacco is placed round the edges when the carpet is put 
down. 
Dr. Harris’ work on “ Insects Injurious to Vegetation,” contains the 
following additional suggestions: “ In old houses that are much in¬ 
fested by moths, the cracks in the floors, in the wainscot, around the 
walls and shelves of closets, and even in the furniture used for hold¬ 
ing clothes, should be brushed over with spirits of turpentine. Pow¬ 
dered black pepper strewed under the edge of carpets is said to r^pel 
moths. Sheets of paper sprinkled with spirits of turpentine, cam¬ 
phor in coarse povrder, leaves of tobacco, or shavings of Russia leather, 
should be placed among the clothes when they are laid aside for the 
summer.” 
“The cloth linings of carriages can be secured forever from the at¬ 
tacks of moths by being washed or sponged on both sides with a solu¬ 
tion of the corrosive sublimate of mercury in alcohol, made just 
strong enough not to leave a white stain on the black leather. Moths 
can be killed by fumigating the article containing them with tobacco 
smoke or with sulpher, or by shutting it in a tight vessel and then 
plunging the latter into boiling water, or exposing it to steam for the 
space of fifteen minutes, or by putting it into an oven heated to 
about one hundred and fifty degrees cf Fahrenheit’s thermometer.” 
A weak solution of carbolic acid has also been recommended. 
Tinea tapetzella, Linn. —The Carpet Moth. 
This insect as its common name implies, works mostly in carpets, 
constructing its case and having a habit similar to the preceding 
species. The perfect insect is “blackish at the base of the fore wings 
the remainder being yellowish white, while the hind wings are dark 
gray, and the head white. The larva feeds on carpets, etc.” 
Remedies .—Given under the Clothes Moth. 
Tinea rusticella, Hub. 
This, sometimes called T vestianella, is another Clothes Moth that 
has habits similar to the one already described. The perfect insect 
is dark browm, tinged w T ith violet, with a very pale yellow costa, discal 
patch and one above the interior angle. Fringe of the fore wings 
dark colored, dotted on the hind margin with pale yellow. Hind 
wings gray, with a bronzy hue. 
Remedies .—The same as the first mentioned. 
