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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Fig. 241. 
Fig. 242. 
and beautiful collection of shells were formerly lined with 
fine white flannel. In this some moths soon established 
themselves, multiplied very fast, and, in the course of a 
few years, did so much damage that it became necessary 
entirely to remove the moth-eaten 
linings. In their winged state these 
moths (Fig. 241) were of a light 
buff color, with the lustre of satin, 
and had a thick orange-colored tuft 
on the forehead ; the wings were 
deeply fringed, and the first pair were 
lance-shaped, and expanded rather more than half an inch. 
This species agrees very well with the description given, 
by the old naturalists, of the Tinea 
flavifrontella* (Fig. 242, larva, natural 
size and magnified), or the orange- 
fronted Tinea, and with Wood’s fig- 
ure of Tinea destructor , the destroyer. 
Should it prove to be different from these, it may be named 
the satin-buff moth. Objects of natural history are very 
apt to be injured by another moth, closely resembling the 
foregoing, and differing from it chiefly in being somewhat 
smaller, and in having the hind wings tinged with gray. 
Chocolate, as Rdaumur has remarked, is devoured by an- 
other Tinea, whose little silken cases are often seen between 
the cakes, and I have also found them in chocolate put up 
in tin cases. Other articles of food are also devoured by 
some of these Tinese, and even our books are not spared 
by them. 
The Tineans, in the winged state, have four short and 
slender feelers, a thick tuft on the forehead, and very nar- 
row wings, which are deeply fringed. They lay their eggs 
mostly in the spring, in May and June, and die imme- 
diately afterwards. The eggs (according to Latreille and 
Duponchel, from whose works the following remarks are 
* Not the Balia Jlavifrontdla of the English entomologists. 
