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inner angle. There is a row of 5 black spots in the wing between the 

 bars. Body on upper part black, gray beneath. 



Described from two specimens from Chaochi, U. S. of Co- 

 lombia. 



Type. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 Paratype. Collection Mengel. 



Coleophora laricella Hiibn. in New Jersey (Lep.). 



This insect, known as the Larch Case Bearer and recorded from 

 Rutherford, N. J., (Ent. News, vol. XXVII, p. 13), does not seem as 

 yet to have a very extensive distribution in New Jersey. It was 

 evidently introduced on imported nursery stock as it has a wide dis- 

 tribution in continental Europe and hundreds of cases of stock are 

 consigned to Rutherford every year. The larvae mine the distal halves 

 of the larch needles and later construct cases in which they live while 

 feeding during the remainder of the season, these cases later being 

 fastened to stems and twigs and serving as a protection for the larvae 

 while overwintering. The injury to the tree is very apparent in the 

 discoloration, shriveling and withering of the tips of the needles. In 

 the spring, growth is completed and pupation takes place. Quite ex- 

 tended accounts of this species can be found in F. V. Theobald's Re- 

 port on Economic Zoology for year ending April ist, 1905, S. E. Agric. 

 Col. of Wye. ; Felt's work on Insects Affecting Park and Woodland 

 Trees and in Bull. 322 of the Cornell Agric. Exp. Sta. HARRY B. 

 ^ New Brunswick, New Jersey. 



The House Cricket a Pest in St. Louis (Orth.). 



I beg to make a report on the House Cricket (Grylhis domcsticus) 

 which is a house pest at the present time (Sept. I, 1916) in North St. 

 Louis, Missouri. I investigated and found them by the hundreds in 

 private homes, and in one store by the thousands, eating the labels off 

 the canned goods, and eating paper bags and other goods, even cloth- 

 ing. I have always noticed them in the yard and even in the house 

 for the last fifteen years, but this is the first time I noticed them by 

 the thousands. I enclose a clipping of a report of one of our evening 

 papers on the pest, and hope this will prove of interest to the NEWS. 

 CHARLES L. HEINK. 



[The clipping enclosed is from the St. Louis Times for August 23, 

 1916, as follows :] 



A new bug pest, a cross between a grasshopper and a cricket, with 

 the appetite of a goat, inasmuch as it devours clothes and paper, is 

 pestering residents in Northeast St. Louis, and they have issued an 

 appeal to the police and health departments to aid them in their efforts 

 to destroy the insects. 



Jacob Weinberg, proprietor of a store, 4337 North Broadway, was 

 the first to appeal to the police. He said the insects invaded his place 

 of business, ate holes in clothing and paper bags. 



