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§ 33. Insects importp:d from Europe. Dr. H. A. 

 Hagen read some notes on insects which purport to liave been 

 imported into this country from Europe. At the previous 

 meeting he liad said tliat three-fourths of the species of insects 

 wliich were introduced into America were not indigenous to 

 Europe, but if they had come to this country from Europe 

 tliey had equally come to Europe previously from the east. 

 Their line of migration was indicated in some cases by the 

 names they bore. All these migrating insects had spread from 

 the east toward the west. Dr. Hagen now took up the subject 

 of clothes-moths and their allies. In recent years, lists of in- 

 sects imported into America had been made by B. D. Walsh, 

 by C. V. Riley, and by J. A. Lintner. In these lists Tinea ves- 

 tianeUa, T. tapetzella, T. pellionella and T. flavifrontella are 

 said to have been imported from Europe. Dr. Hagen says that 

 Linnaeus' description of T. vestianella is not sufficient for the 

 recognition of the species. The only specimens of T. tapetzella 

 known to have been collected in this country are the type of 

 V. T. Chambers' description and two specimens in the Harris 

 collection. Dr. Hagen has not seen T. pellionella in this coun- 

 try, and it is doubtful whether the common species known in 

 this country as T. fiavifrontella is identical with the European 

 species that bear that name. Nov. 8, 1878. 



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