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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 he made every year, early in September, when 
the cocoons will be found in greater numbers than at any 
other time, and should he carefully removed and burned. 
The winged moths are very fond of sweets ; and if shallow 
vessels, containing a mixture of honey or sugar, Avitlx vin- 
egar and Avater, are placed near the bee-house in the eA'en- 
ing, the moths Avill get into them and he drowned. In this 
way great numbers may he 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, Avhen arrived at maturity, ex- 
panding their Avings only about eight tenths of an inch. 
The ravages of some of these little creatures are too Avell 
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known to need a particular description. Among them may 
be mentioned the clothes-moth (Tinea vestianella ), the ta- 
pestry or carpet-moth (T. tapetzdla ), the fur-moth (T. pel- 
lionella), the hair-moth (T. Crinella), and the grain-moth 
(T. (jr audio), Avith some others, belonging to a group Avhich 
may be called Tineans (Tixeaixe) ; also the pack-moth 
(Anacampsis sarcitella ), which is very destructive to avooI 
and fabrics made of this material, and the Angoumois grain- 
moth ( Batalis cerealella ), both of Avhich are to he included 
among the Yponomeutians. In the cabinet of the Boston 
Society of Natural History, the cases containing the large 
