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MR. CRAWSHAY'S interesting letter does not affect the question of Tinea vastella and its feeding on horns. Reference to the authorities quoted in your issue of September 15 last, or to the accounts of Lord Walsingham (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 238; id. Proc., 1881, p. viii., 1882, p. xx.), and Mr. R. Trimen (Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc., iii. p. 24), shows that the moth has been bred repeatedly from horns, and in one case, from a hoof of the troop-horse killed with the Prince Imperial in Zululand, land by naturalists whose competence is beyond question. Recently M. de Joannis has described (Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1897, p. 109), the emergence from buffalo and ox-horns in Algeria of a large number of examples of a new Tineid moth, Tineola infuscatella, together with a few specimens of Blabophanes nigricantella, Mill., B.imella, Hübn., and Trichophaga bipartitella, Rag., the larvæ of which moths had apparently also fed upon the horn-substance.
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BLANDFORD, W. Larvæ in Antelope Horns. Nature 59, 342 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059342a0
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