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crop of stored grain with their progeny. Mr. Samuel Ju- 

 dah, of A^incennes, Indiana, in a short and very sensible 

 article, published in " The Indiana Farmer and Gardener " 

 for October 4, 1845, seems to have come to nearly the 

 same conclusions. ]\Ir. Richard Owen, of New Harmony, 

 Indiana, has given a very good history of this insect, accom- 

 panied with wood-cuts, in " The Cultivator,"' for July and 

 November, 184G. To this I may have occasion again to 

 refer, as also to two other articles, on the same subject, by 

 Edward Ruffin, Esq., in the sixth volume of " The Ameri- 

 can Agriculturist," pages 52 and 93, published in February 

 and March, 1847. 



In the summer of 1840, INIr. E. C. Herrick, of New Ha- 

 A-en, Connecticut, sent to me a few grains of Avheat, that had 

 been eaten by moth-worms precisely in the same way as grain 

 is attacked by the Angoumois insect ; and a gentleman, to 

 whom this moth-eaten wheat was shown, informed me that 

 he had seen gi'ain thus affected in Maine. Unfortunately, 

 the insects contained in this Avheat were dead when received, 

 having perished in the chrysalis state. Had they lived to 

 finish their transformations, they would have afforded me 

 an opportunity of ascertaining their suspected identity with 

 the fly-weevil of Virginia, and the Angoumois moth of 

 France. All my attempts to obtain specimens of the fly- 

 weevil from the South and West were imsuccessful, till the 

 10th of November, 1845, when I had the pleasure of receiv- 

 ing a parcel of damaged wheat and a bottle fiill of the moths 

 from Richmond, Virginia, through the kindness of Mr. John 

 Dunlop Osborne, then a student in the Law School of 

 Harvard College. Living specimens, and the insects in the 

 worm or larva state, were still Avanting. These were most 

 unexpectedly obtained nearer home. 



The late Samuel ISI. Burnside, Esq., of Worcester, told 

 me, in the summer of 1844, that he had a quantity of corn, 

 grown the year before, which had become infested witli 

 insects, and that he found great numbers of the insects, on 



