MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 
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Tinea Jlavifrontella,— tlie common clothes moth, is found in our 
houses in summer, and may frequently be seen flying about our apart¬ 
ments at night. It is of a light yellowish color and has a silky 
appearance. 
The larva is whitish and does great damage to woollens, using the 
material on which it feeds to make its pupa case. 
Numerous moth destroyers are used to exterminate this pest. 
Camphor, naphthaline, benzine, snuff and corrosive sublimate may he 
all used with effect; but common kerosene oil is perhaps the simplest, 
cheapest and most effective. When woollens are to he put away for 
the summer, sprinkle kerosene oil profusely in the bottom of the trunk 
or box in which they are to he packed and after it is filled lay over the 
goods a paper saturated with it and close the whole up tight. When 
it is desired to use the clothes once more, a few hours’ exposure to the 
air and sunshine will remove all smell of the kerosene. 
Tinea granella. 
Tinea granella is a creamy-white moth with brown markings on 
the upper wings one-half an inch in exposure, and the larvae live in 
our granaries, where they entail great loss if left undisturbed. 
The female moth lays its eggs upon the grains of wheat, and the 
worms eat their way into the grains, reducing them to shells and 
binding masses of them together with their webs. The larva, accord, 
ing to Curtis, makes a cocoon composed of web and wood-pulp in 
which it hibernates during the winter, changing to a chrysalis in the 
spring and soon after emerging a moth. 
In Hyponomeuta millepnnctatella the larvae are gregarious and 
spin cocoons. The moth is three-fourths of an inch across the 
