230 Fiftieth Report ox the State Museum 



Packard : Guide Study Ins., 1869, pp. 4 [3-414, fig. 335 ; Entomol. for 

 Beginn , 1888, p. 128, fig. 149 (brief mention), 



Riley: 2nd Rept. Ins. Mo., 1870, p. 10 (an imported pest); in Amer. 

 Entomol., ii, 1870, pp. 78-79 (habits of skippers; their natural 

 food), pp. 180, 339 (nieniiop.) ; in id., iii, 1880, pp. 23-24 

 (injuring smoked hams). 



Willard: in Amer. Entomol., ii, 1870, p. 78 (treatment of skippery 

 cheese). 



Glover: MS. Notes from My Journ., 1874, p. 40 (said to have been 

 bred from salt alone by Germar). 



: Country Gent., xliv, 1879, p. 727 (general account). 



Jacobs : in Comp.-Rend. des Seances, Soc. Ent. Belg., 18S2, pp. cx.xiv- 

 cxxv (synonymy, notes). 



Mann : in Psyche, iv, 1884, p. 207 (reference). 



Fyles; in i7ih Ann. Rept. Eniomolog. Soc. Ont., 1887, p. 38 (brief 

 notice). 



Ritze:\Ia Bos: Tiersche Schiidl. Niltzlinge, 1891, pp. 620-621 (brief 

 mention). 



Kellogg: in Insect Life, v, 1892, p. 116 (injuring smoked meats, dura- 

 tion of stnges), 



Murtfeldt: in Insect Life, v, 1892, pp. 135-136 (bred from ham); in 

 id., vi, 1893, pp. 170-175 (detailed account); the same in 24th 

 Ann. Rept. Entomolog. Soc. Ont., 1895, pp. 98-102. 



Riley-Howard : Insect Life, vi, 1894, p. 209 (damage by, duration of 

 stages), p. 226 (mention.) 



CoMSTOCKS: Manual Study Insects, 1895, pp. 486-487 (brief mention). 



Howard : in Bull. 4 New Series, Div. Entomol., U. S. Dept. Agricul., 

 1896, pp. 102-104, fig. 48 (general account). 



Lintner : in Country Gentleman, Ixi, 189$, p. 293 (general account). 



Smith : Econom. Entomol., 1896, pp. 367-369, fig. 423 (habiis, remedies). 



A gentleman writing from Moorefield, W. Va., states, that about the 

 15th of January, some meat in his cellar which had lain in salt two 

 months, was found infested with '• skippers." He was of the opinion that 

 " the insect was in the meat when butchered, and if the meat had been 

 properly cured by salt, the germ would have been destroyed." 



Request was made for some of the infested meat containing the 

 " skippers," but answer was returned that there was none of it left, — 

 what disposition had been made of it was not stated. It was learned 

 that the meat was pork, and was on the point of being removed for con- 

 verting into bacon, when the infestation was discovered. 



There can be but little doubt that the insect was the " cheese-skipper," 

 which is also known as the "ham-skipper" from its frequent occurrence 

 in smoked hams. There would be no hesitation in referring it, without 

 question, to this insect, were it not, first, for the unusual time of its 

 appearance — early in January, — the earliest record heretofore given of 

 it. It was thought that its early appearance may have been the result 

 of a furnace-heated or otherwise unusually warm cellar drawing the flies. 



