372 Forty-fourth Report on the State Museum 



The New Carpet Beetle — Anthrenus scrophularise. (Entomo- 

 logical Contributions, No. IV, June 1878, pp. 15-23, figure. 

 American Naturalist, for August, 1878, xii, pp. 536-544. Thir- 

 tieth Annual Report of the New York State Museum of Natu- 

 ral History, 1878, pp. 117-254.) 



Newspaper report of an unknown carpet pest ; examples taken at 

 Schenectady ; its scientific identification ; earlier history ; its importa- 

 tion; illustration of stages; larva described; transformations; beetle 

 described; habits, habitat, and injury; its prospective harm; its opera- 

 tion in a house at Cold Spring, N. Y. ; preventives and remedies; dis- 

 tribution ; necessity of combatting it ; other imported insect pests ; not 

 injurious to carpets in Europe. 



Annual Address of the President [of the Entomological Club of 

 the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at 

 St. Louis, Mo., August 20, 1878 J. (Canadian Entomologist, for 

 September, 1878, x, pp. 171-176.) 



Review of progress during last half century; extended catalogues 

 of insects ; present knowledge of life-histories ; number of working 

 entomologists ; entomological collections ; serial literature ; writings 

 of specialists ; government aid in investigation and publication ; 

 biological study commended. 



The Turnip Flea Beetle. (Country Gentleman, for September 12, 

 1878, xliii, p. 583, c. 2 — 12 cm.) 



Larvje destroying turnips at Chardon, O., of the appearance and after 

 the manner described, are identified as those of Haltica (Phyllotreta) 

 ^triolata 111. [is PJujllotreta vittata (Fabr.)] The larva is described. 



The Carpet Beetle. (Country Gentleman, for September 12, 1878, 

 xliii, p. 583, c. 2, 3 — 18 cm.) 



Extracts from an article in the August American Naturalist relating 

 to distribution, its food, appearance and habits of the larva, the beetle 

 found in flowers, its description, and remedies for the insect. 



The Harlequin Cabbage-bug. (Country Gentleman, for Septemb.er 

 26, 1878, xliii, p 616, c. 1 — 9 cm.) 



An insect destroying cabbages at Fort Union, Va., is Murgantia his- 

 trionica (Hahn). Its injuries in several of the States are referred to, 

 together with preventions of its attack. 

 [See First Repoy^t on the Insects of New York, 1883, pp. 264-271.] 



The Cabbage Aphis. (Country Gentleman, for November 14, 

 1878, xliii, p. 727, c. 1, 2— 14 cm.) 



An Aphis attacking turnips in Laceyville, O., is the Aphis brassicce of 

 Linnaeus, occurring in both Europe and America. Remedies are given, 

 as the use of lime, soap-suds, and tobacco water. 

 The aphis on the apple-twig is Aphis mali. 



