Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . /1\\\ \\ l„ II l\ Li\. / ^ ?5m*!^«S«3s.^.iB|iifK;2 Figure 143.—Meal-moth {Plodia inferpunctella) ; a, imago; b, larva; bothenlarged 21:/. Figure 144.— Flour-moth (Ephcsfia Kuehniella Zell.), x IJ2;b, larva, x SJ^ ; from Websters International Dictionary; after Chittenden. Meal-moths; Flour-moths; Grain-raoths. {Pyralis gra7}ella, Gg. 142. Plodia inferpunctella, fig. 14:3. Ephes-tia Kuehniella, fig. 144. Angoumois Grain-moth or ?? Fly-xoeeviV =? Sitotroga, or Gelechia, cerealella, fig. 145.) All these small moths, a
Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . /1\\\ \\ l„ II l\ Li\. / ^ ?5m*!^«S«3s.^.iB|iifK;2 Figure 143.—Meal-moth {Plodia inferpunctella) ; a, imago; b, larva; bothenlarged 21:/. Figure 144.— Flour-moth (Ephcsfia Kuehniella Zell.), x IJ2;b, larva, x SJ^ ; from Websters International Dictionary; after Chittenden. Meal-moths; Flour-moths; Grain-raoths. {Pyralis gra7}ella, Gg. 142. Plodia inferpunctella, fig. 14:3. Ephes-tia Kuehniella, fig. 144. Angoumois Grain-moth or ?? Fly-xoeeviV =? Sitotroga, or Gelechia, cerealella, fig. 145.) All these small moths, and apparently others related to them,seem to be common, as in most other warm countries. They all feedon stored cereals of various kinds, including flour, meal, bran, stored •780 A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. grain, and ship-bread, and often do great damage to stores of pro-visions in forts, ships, and warehouses, as well as in iiour-niills. Plodia interpunctella has the wings light, dull gray, the distalpart of the fore wings brownish
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