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received the previous year from South Britain, Conn. Two dead 

 individuals had previously been discovered in another case ot insects. 

 Tlie species may, therefore, be enrolled in the entomological 

 black-list ot museum pests, where it has not hitherto had place. 



Anthonomds musculus Say. — A new strawberry pest made its 

 ap]>earance on Staten Island, N. Y., early in June, 1884. It 

 proved to be a small beetle belonging to the CurculioiiidoB or 

 snout-beetles, known as Autkooionius rmisculus Say. The first 

 notice of it as a strawberry pest was in July of 1883, when its 

 ravages were brought to the notice of Prot. A. J. Cook, of the 

 State Agricultural College at Lansing, Mich., as having appeared 

 in countless thousands at Phoenix, Mich., and was ruining the 

 entire strawberry crop by puncturing the fruit. The attack is 

 noticed and a figure given of the beetle, with its description, in 

 the TJdrteenth Annual Re])ort of the State Horticultural Society 

 of Michigan, for the year 1883 (p. 155). 



Upon Staten Island, according to Prof. Riley's observations of 

 it, the beetle attacked the buds, causing them to droop or shrivel 

 and dry up. The " Sharpless " variety was found to have sutlered 

 the most from the attack. 



Atkopos divinatoria {O. Fahr.). — Prof. E. "W. Clay pole, of 

 Akron, O., referring to the notice, in the Second Report of the Neiv 

 York State Entomologist, of A tropos divinatoria in festins^ a dwell- 

 ing-house (pp. 189-201), states that a similar case had been brought 

 to his notice by one ot his colleagues, where a room was found 

 similarly infested and the like suspicion of their introduction by 

 guests was entertained. Recommendation was made of scouring 

 and airing the room lor their extermination. The short time that 

 had elapsed (about three months) did not suffice to show the eflFects 

 of the recommendation. 



Prof. (Jlaypole also reports the presence of Anthrenus scrophu- 

 laricB in Akron, Ohio, for the past seven years. 



