. The American entomologist. Entomology. 90 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. brown, and vei-y much of the same form as tliat of the Acliemon Sphinx, figured in our last num- ber. The moth (Fig. .09) makes its appearance in June of the following year, though it has boon known to issue flie same year that it had [Fig. pose of crawling out; usually,however, it sim- ply projects the front part of its body and crawls about without entirely quitting the case —carrying its house with it. There arc various things recommended as a A^X. Colors—Li-lit oliYo-gr existed as larva. In this last event, it doubtless
. The American entomologist. Entomology. 90 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. brown, and vei-y much of the same form as tliat of the Acliemon Sphinx, figured in our last num- ber. The moth (Fig. .09) makes its appearance in June of the following year, though it has boon known to issue flie same year that it had [Fig. pose of crawling out; usually,however, it sim- ply projects the front part of its body and crawls about without entirely quitting the case —carrying its house with it. There arc various things recommended as a A^X. Colors—Li-lit oliYo-gr existed as larva. In this last event, it doubtless becomes barren, like others under similar cir- cumstances, as was shown in our last number (p. 55). The colors of the moth are light olive- gray, variegated as in the figure with dark olive-green. The worms are easily subdued by hand-picking. SOUTHERN NOTES. BY .T. rAItlSH STELLE, TENN. Clotues-Moths.—We have several species of clothes-moths at the South, some of which work all through the winter as far up as Corinth, Miss. They arc all troublesome enough, but the individual most to be dreaded is of a light buff color {Tinea vestianeUa,* Steph.), though wc have another almost as bad {Tinea tapet- zella, Linn.), that is nearly black, with the tips of its larger wings white, or pale gray. These moths generally lay their eggs on the woolen or fur articles they intend to destroy; and when the larva appears it begins to eat im- mediately, making sad work in a very short time. With the hairs or wool it has gnawed oflT, it forms a silken case or tube, under the protec- tion of which it devours the substance of the article on which it has fixed its abode. The tube has the ajjpearance of parchment, is open at both ends, but furnished with kind of flaps that the insect can lift at jdeasure for the pur- "rusticella, HiU'biKr. protection against clothes-moths. One is to- bacco sprinkled among the clothes, another is gum-camphor, and still another capsicum or pulveri
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