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evident that the extreme heat of the past summer induced numerous 
individuals of this species to fly northward, and it is also evident, from 
the numerous reports of injury, that the species is established out- 
doors, at least temporarily, in other localities than Philadelphia. 
Writing November 30, 1900, Mr. J. E. Walker states that this insect 
was ruining the wheat crop in the vicinity of Media, Pa. He writes 
that it can not be fanned out, as the hull or injured kernel and the 
insect are apparently so nearly of the same weight. In one instance 
men at work upon wheat were obliged to leave the barn at various 
intervals during the process of threshing to clear their throats and 
relieve their noses from the flying insects, which came in clouds, both 
dead and alive, from the machine. The presence of the insect in the 
grain was not discovered until threshing commenced, in November. 
Most of the wheat in that vicinity was threshed in July and sold, or 
complaints of injury would probably have been general. 
Writing again January 23, our correspondent stated that after 
inquiry among persons residing in the neighboring towns he ascertained 
the extent of injury by this species to comprise a district radiating 
from Media and extending from Philadelphia to Newtown Square, to 
Westchester, to Kennett Square, to Ashland, Del., and up the Dela- 
ware River to Philadelphia, which completed the circuit. He expa- 
tiated on the difficulty of obtaining the information desired, owing to 
a general suspicion on the part of persons interviewed that the infor- 
mation which they might give would interfere with the sale of their 
farms; also that it was simply out of the question to endeavor to per- 
suade farmers to apply remedies to grain that had been threshed. 
They were all willing to sell for what the grain might bring, and it 
was left to the middleman to do the ‘‘doctoring.” Some interesting 
instances of infestation by this species were cited. One person owning 
a farm at Newtown Square threshed his grain from the mow, shipped 
600 bushels to Philadelphia, and when the car was opened the next day 
the grain was so badly heated that a man walked on the top of it with- 
out making an impression with his shoe soles. Those who threshed 
immediately after harvest succeeded in effecting a sale of their wheat. 
A milling company at Kennett Square was refusing to take wheat for 
grinding, as several thousand bushels in stock was badly damaged 
before the presence of the moth was discovered. Another mill at Ash- 
land, Del., was caught like the preceding. Six thousand bushels was 
damaged. Injury was general about Westchester, especially to wheat 
which was stored in the sheaf and permitted to remain some length of 
time before threshing. 
February 6, 1901, we receivea information from a milling company 
of New York City that this species, specimens of which were sent, 
was very generally destructive throughout New Jersey and eastern 
Pennsylvania. 
