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eggs in natural size and in enlargement; c and d, side and dorsal 

 view of a segment of the larva enlarged. In Figure 57, a, is the male 



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Fig. 56. — Larva and eggs of 

 the spring canker-worm — Anis- 

 OPTEEYX VEBNATA. (After Riley.) 



Fig. 57.— Male and female moths and en- 

 largements of Anisoptekyx veenata. (After 

 Riley.) 



moth and h the wingless female, each in natural size; c, enlargement 

 of portion of female antennae; d, joint of female abdomen, enlarged ; 

 e, its ovipositor, enlarged. 



* Tinea pellionella Linn. — This notorious pest ^ — the common 

 clothes-moth, carpet-moth, fur-moth (different names for the same 

 insect), etc., was first observed in flight in my office, as early as Febru- 

 ary thirteenth. During March, and especially toward the latter part 

 of the month, the moths were not uncommon. On Aj^ril twenty-third, 

 note was made of their being quite numerous. They were also 

 reported to me as flying in abundance. May fourteenth, from a bag 

 with hops and pieces of flannel; the flannel was found almost entirely 

 eaten. 



The above early appearances of the insect are noted, as Professor 

 Fernald, in his excellent paper discussing the confused synonymy of 

 the species, states that " the moths emerge in June and July, and 

 some even as late as August, yet • there is but a single generation " 

 {Canadian Entomologist, xiv, 1882, p. 167). Dr. Packard represents the 

 moth as beginning to fly about our apartments in May {Guide to the 

 Study of Insects, 1866, p. 346). Dr. Harris states that they lay their 

 eggs in May or June, and indicates early June as the time in which 

 the prudent housekeeper should beat up their quarters and put them 

 to flight or destroy their eggs and young (/nsecfe Injurious to Vegetation, 

 1862, pp. 493, 494). 



Probably the nearly uniform day and night temperature of my 

 office during the winter, maintained by the steam-heating arrange- 

 ments of the Capitol, serve to shorten the period of pupation, when 

 compared with its usual period in our dwellings. 



* Mallota sp. — Professor L. M. Underwood, of Syracuse Univer- 

 sity, sends, January nineteenth, larvae (3), puparium, and empty 

 puparia (3), taken in Western New York, from between the boards 



