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of grain with a web of silk, and generally scattering silk 
in all directions. The moth has the outer two-thirds of 
the fore wing reddish brown with the luster of copper, 
while the inner or basal third is soiled grayish; its hind 
wings are grayish. The cocoon is elliptical, slender, 
fragile, and of clear silk. The Indian Meal Moth- 
bb. Caterpillars living in densely woven silken cases which 
are covered with particles of the food substance. Com¬ 
mon in flour or chaff in corners. 
c. A yellowish white to pinkish caterpillar living in flour, 
webbing it together and forming a cocoon covered with 
particles of flour. The moth is dark grayish, the fore 
wings silvery gray mottled with blackish streaks, one of 
which, obscurely resembling a letter V or W, crosses the 
wing between its base and middle; the hind wings are 
silvery whitish. The Mediterranean Flour-moth. 
cc. A soiled grayish caterpillar, darker at each end, living 
in chaff or other vegetable debris in dark damp places, 
securely webbing the food substance together so that it 
becomes matted; larval case and cocoon completely hid¬ 
den, covered with the food substance. Adults very beau¬ 
tiful, base and outer portions of the front wings brown¬ 
ish red, the middle portion whitish, margined on each 
side by a thin wavy whitish line which crosses the wing 
and separates the three color divisions. The hind wings 
are whitish, with a whitish wavy line running thru them 
and a row of black spots around the hind margin. 
. The Meal Snout-moth. 
A A. Beetles or weevils; the larva or grub with a distinct head, 
usually three pairs of thoracic legs but no abdominal legs, bit¬ 
ing jaws. Does not spin a cocoon. The pupa is whitish, the 
appendages free. The adults are hard and horny, with two 
pairs of wings, the upper pair horny, closed together in a 
• straight line over the back, and concealing the larger, folded, 
thin under pair. Their mouths are constructed for chewing; 
placed in weevils at the tip of a snoutlike prolongation of the 
head. Insects differing much in size; usually about as large 
as a grain of wheat, but varying up to a half-inch or more in 
length. 
d. Small insects living in kernels of grain, or among grain and 
other stored products. 
e. A very small, fat, humped-up grub, occurring in kernels of 
wheat or corn, like the grub in chestnuts but smaller, 
yellowish white, legless, very hump-backed and wrinkled, 
unable to crawl, its head inconspicuous and yellowish 
