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If flour, meal, or other cereals become badly infested 

 and the larvae build their tubes all through it, the material 

 will probably have to be fed to stock or thrown away. In 

 other cases the same methods of control will avail for this 

 insect that were described as efficient for the control of 

 the Mediterranean flour moth. 



References to Economic Literature on the Meal Snout-moth 



1889. Riley-Howard. — Range of Pyralis farinalis. Insect Life, 

 Vol. 2, p. 194. 



1893. Osborn, Herbert. — Methods of treating insects affect- 

 ing grasses and forage plants. Insect Life, Vol. 6, pp. 72, 78, 

 193. 



1895. Chittenden, F. H. — The more important insects injurious 

 to stored grain. Yearbook, U.S. Dept. Agri., 1894, p. 286. 



1894. Osborn, Herbert. — The clover-hay worm. Bull. 32 (old 

 ser.), Bu. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agri., p. 49. 



1896. Chittenden, F. H. — The principal household insects of the 

 United States. Bull. 4, Bu. Ent., U.S. Dept. Agri., p. 119. 



1896. Quaintance, A. L. — The meal snout-moth. Bull. 36, Fla. 

 Expt. Stat., p. 362. 



1897. Chittenden, F. H. — Some insects injurious to stored grain. 

 Farmers' Bull. 45, U. S. Dept. Agri., p. 10. 



1900. Fletcher, James. — Notes from Canada. Bull. 26, Bu. 

 Ent., U. S. Dept. Agri., p. 96. 



THE GRANARY WEEVIL 



Calandra granaria 



Nearly every kind of small insect that is found in stored 

 grains and cereals is commonly called a weevil. Really 

 there are only two insects that frequent these food-stuffs 

 that should properly be called weevils and these are the 



