INSECTS INJURIOUS IN 1902. 59 
of killing these pests in a confined space; the writer has used it 
and has heard of its successful use elsewhere. A saucerful of this 
agent placed upon the top of woolens in a tight chest or trunk 
twice or thrice during the season, and allowed to evaporate during 
24 or 30 hours, will invariably kill all insects in such chest or 
trunk. The liquid volatilizing and the heavy gas sinking through 
the fabrics, carries death as it goes. This liquid and gas is ex- 
tremely inflammable. Housekeepers need no caution in this di- 
rection ‘as regards Benzine and Gasoline, for all are aware of 
these qualities in the two latter agents. 
The excellent practice of storing woolens and furs which 
have been thoroughly freed from eggs and from larva of these 
pests, in paste-board boxes, which are afterwards throughly sealed 
by pasting paper over the cracks, is well known. 
BLISTER BEETLES ON WINDSOR BEANS. 
Macrobasis unicolor, Kirby. 
Windsor Beans upon the University farm were attacked this 
year by numbers of these beetles. They fed upon both the flowers 
Fig. 51.—Macrobasis wnicolor injuring beans. 
