Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 141.—Fig-moth (Ephestia cahiritella); enlarged 2; A, imago; B, larvaFigure 142.—Grain or Wolf-moth {Tinea granella); a, imago, enlarged ;a, the same, nat. size ; b, larva, nat. size and enlarged ; c, pupa, nat. sizeand enlarged: d, infested grain. After Packard. 141 from WebstersInternational Dictionary ; after Chittenden. States and Canada. Jones recorded it as common in 1876 ; it wasalso in Geddes list. We took it in April, 1901. It was taken byMiss Hay ward, Aug., 1902, at lights. * Mr. Dyar gives me the following synonym

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Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 141.—Fig-moth (Ephestia cahiritella); enlarged 2; A, imago; B, larvaFigure 142.—Grain or Wolf-moth {Tinea granella); a, imago, enlarged ;a, the same, nat. size ; b, larva, nat. size and enlarged ; c, pupa, nat. sizeand enlarged: d, infested grain. After Packard. 141 from WebstersInternational Dictionary ; after Chittenden. States and Canada. Jones recorded it as common in 1876 ; it wasalso in Geddes list. We took it in April, 1901. It was taken byMiss Hay ward, Aug., 1902, at lights. * Mr. Dyar gives me the following synonyms : hybridalis Hub. ; indistinctaliaWalk.: Tie^votohs Maasen. A. E. Yerrill— The Bermuda Islands. 119 Bee-moth; Wax-moth. [Galleria mellonella—G. cereana.) Figure 140. Common and very injurious to the honey bees, its larva destroy-ing both honey and comb. Abundant both in Europe and North America. Fig-moth; Raisin-moth. {Ephestia cahiritella Zell.) Figure 141. The larva of this widely diffused moth feeds on dried figs, prunes,raisins, dry currants, n

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