93 



great extent the trouble that had previous!}^ been experienced. Our 

 correspondent believed that this statement would apply to the larger 

 mills, at least, of his locality. November 20, a correspondent at Balls 

 Ferr}^, Shasta County, Cal., reported this flour pest in that vicinity. 

 This appears to be a new locality in California, although the species is 

 rather more widel}'^ distributed there than in an}^ other State of the 

 Union. 



January 28, 1902, the president of a flour company at San Francisco, 

 Cal., wrote in regard to the Mediterranean flour moth in that city. In 

 putting up breakfast cereals his Arm had been seriously annoyed by the 

 eg'gs and larvae of the moth dexeloping several weeks from the time of 

 packing. He said that the food material in question could be exposed to 

 a temperature of 212^ F. or thereabouts without serious damage. June 

 30 a merchant miller, of Detroit, Mich. , sent this species in flour from a 

 mill in that cit}'. He was anxious to obtain information in regard to 

 the use of hydrocyanic-acid gas, as the insurance companies refused to 

 grant permission for the use of bisulphid of carbon as a f umigant. Two 

 years earlier it was reported that one mill in Detroit was infested l^y 

 this insect, and it was surmised that the present invasion was due to 

 the introduction of wheat or secondhand bags from the Northwest, with 

 little doubt from Milwaukee and Minneapolis, where this species as 

 just reported is now known to be present in great numbers. It is now 

 said that nearly all the mills in those two cities are completely over- 

 run with this pest. 



THE ANGOUMOIS GRAIN MOTH IN 1901. 



In spite of the employment of precautionary as well as remedial 

 measures that have been generalh' used against the Angoumois grain 

 moth {Sitot7'oga cerealella Zell.) in the more northern States in which 

 it is found, it continues to be injurious 3"ear by year, and it seems to 

 be as troublesome now a» ever, if, indeed, not more so. The follow- 

 ing notes are extracts from correspondence during the 3'ear 1901. In 

 nearly every instance specimens of the insect accompanied the letters. 



February 8 we received word from the Larrowe Milling Company, 

 New York City, that this species was a general pest throughout New 

 flersey and eastern Pennsylvania. 



On the 27th of the same month Mr. James R. Kirby, Smiths 

 Grove, Ky., wrote that the farmers of that vicinit}" were seriou.sly 

 troubled by this species. 



March -1 Mr. William fJ. Haverly, Los Angeles, Cal., complained 

 of injury to the seeds of held corn. 



September 28 Mr. Horace L. Dilworth reported this species as 

 doing great damage to wheat in the neighborhood of Centerville, Del. 



October IT Mr. Walter Geist, Shawan, Md., who'runs a thrashmg 



