38 INJURIOUS INSECTS OF 1904. 



year, as far as reported. In some instances, the outbreak may have 

 been one or two years preceding the report. 



1877. 

 Outbreak at Halle, Germany. 



1879. 



Outbreak of 1877 referred to and insect named by Zeller. 



1884. 



Belgium. Supposed then to have been introduced in an Amer- 

 ican cereal. Reported also on lower Rhine. 



1885. 

 Reported at Bremervorde, Germany. 



Appeared in England. 



1887. 



London. Trieste. In the 39th Annual Report of New York 

 State Museum of Natural History, J- A. Lintner publishes his 

 reply to an inquh-y of the German consul general at New York 

 City, asking for information about the Flour Moth. He states 

 that he (Lintner) knew of no such insect in America. This is be- 

 lieved to be the first published statement in America regarding 

 the pest. 



1888. 



T. D. A. Cockerell in the Entomologist for November, 1888, 

 page 779, declares that certain larvae found in flour which came 

 from America may have come from infested Trieste flour in the 

 same warehouses. 



