grain-weevil, and the yellow meal-worm. Of the eight remaining 
habitual grain eaters, about two thirds are closely related to one 
or more of the preceding, but specifically distinct and less numerous. 
Fig. i. Ear of corn injured by Angoumois Grain Moth, Sitotroga 
cerealella. 
Among the forty species which are classed as miscellaneous in their 
food habits, some, such as the carpet-beetles, are usually house¬ 
hold insects, and others infest museums, while a large number 
simply enter the granary, not merely because it contains grain, but 
