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resemblance to the two preceding species, was received at this office in December, 
1895, from the Atlanta Exposition, where it was found in Indian corn and chick-peas 
(Cicer arietinum) in the Mexican exhibit. So far as we know, this is the first instance 
of its occurrence in either stored grain or legumes, although there is one record, by 
Mr. Townsend, of its having been found in dried ginger in Jamaica ( Institute of 
Jamaica, Notes from the Museum, No. 78). Occurs in Florida and South Carolina, 
but does not seem to be known with us as a storehouse pest. 
Arecerus | fasciculatus DeG. (coffee-bean weevil).—A series of this anthribid beetle 
was collected by Dr. Palmer at Acapulco. It is disposed to omnivorousness, being 
known to breed in raw coffee berries, cacao beans, mace, nutmegs, cotton bolls, the 
seed pods of the coffee weed (Cassia sp.), and a plant called wild indigo, probably a 
species of Indigofera. This insect is already well known throughout the cotton States, 
and beetles are sometimes found in the Northern States in articles of commerce. 
Cryphalus jalappe Letz.—This little scolytid borer is probably indigenous to 
Mexico, butis often imported into other countries with commercial jalap, upon which 
it lives. Its presence is not considered detrimental to the drug. 
* Sitotroga (Gelechia) cerealella Ol. (Angoumois grain moth).—This species is a 
powerful rival of the two Calandras asa granary pest. Like them, it thrives on 
cereals of all kinds and is nearly as well distributed. At the Columbian and Atlanta 
Expositions, and collected by Mr. Townsend and others. 
Mphestia kuehniella (Mediterranean flour moth).—This scourge of the flour mill was 
breeding in a large exhibition case from Mexico at the Exposition, but the colony 
was promptly destroyed and the introduction of the species at Chicago thereby pre- 
vented. It has obtained a footing in several portions of the United States, being 
particularly destructive on the Pacific Coast, but in the Kast and the South it is still 
very limited in its distribution, and its intreduction through Mexico into Texas and 
other Southern States is more to be dreaded than that of any other storehouse insect. 
* Plodia interpunctella Hbn. (Indian-meal moth).—A wide-spread species, of omniv- 
orous habit. In grain and dried fruits from Mexico both in the agricultural and 
horticultural buildings at the World’s Fair. It was reared from cacao beans from 
Mexico, and from edible acorus collected in Chihuahua by Mr. Townsend. 
* Tinea biselliella Hum. (clothes moth).—A series of this moth has been received from 
Dr. E. Dugeés, Guanajuato, Mexico, with the statement that the insect does much 
damage to stored corn. The species has in this instance, perhaps, been confounded 
with Sitotroga cerealella, although I have myself reared it from stored wheat infested 
with the latter insect. / 
Carphoxera ptelearia Riley (herbarium geometer).—This pernicious herbarium 
pest was described from material first found infesting dried plants received at this 
Department from Mexico and Lower California, and it is more than probable that 
these insects were introduced from that country. 
* Piophila casei Linn. (cheese skipper).—At the Columbian Exposition in cheese; 
also injures ham. 
Atropos sp.—In the Mexican exhibit at the World’s Fair. 
Gamasus spp.—Iwo undetermined mites of this genus, with the preceding in corn. 
In addition to the abeve, a few other species not positively known to occur in Mex- 
ico should receive at least passing mention here, as there can be little doubt, from 
what is known of their distribution, that they occur in that country. These are: 
Cathartus gemellatus, the ‘‘red grain beetle” of our Southern States; Mphestia elu- 
tella, or chocolate moth; Anthrenus verbasci (varius), a common museum pest; Tro- 
goderma sternale Jayne, a species of somewhat similar habits to the preceding one; 
Calandra linearis, the tamarind-seed weevil; Alphitophagus bifasciatus, a cosmopolitan 
species often found in storehouses. 
1 drecerus is the original spelling of this genus (Schoenherr’s Cure. Disp. Meth., 
p. 40; Gen. et Sp. Cure., vol. 1, p. 173), hence must take precedence over Arwocerus. 
2 During April, while this bulletin was going through the press, the discovery of 
the flour moth was announced in a mill near Saltillo, Mexico. 
