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the attempted artificial spread and propagation of the disease, and 

 which make us accept with caution the more sanguine views of men 

 like Professors Lugger and Snow, yet there is sufficient promise of such 

 results to justify the fullest and most careful exiierimentation. This 

 will doubtless be had in the next year or so by the co-operation of the 

 entomologists connected with the different experiment stations. The 

 full life history of the particular Entomopthora is of extreme impor- 

 tance in this connection. 



SOME INSECT PESTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD. 



By C. V. Riley. 



[ Conihiued from page 108. ] 



Fig. 19. — Anthrenus scroi'HULari^ : a larva, dorsal view; 6, do., veutial view ; c, pupa; d. adult — 



all enlarged (after Riley). 



THE CARPET BEETLE, OR SO-CALLED "BUFFALO MOTH."* 



(Anthrenus scro^jhulariw L.) 



This destructive insect, the despair of the good housekeeper, has been 

 known in the eastern United States since 1874, when newspaper articles 

 began to appear complaining of its ravages. In 1876, it was first 

 brought to the attention of entomologists by Prof. J. A. Liutner, of 

 Albany, who found it at Schenectady, N. Y. Between 1874 and 1877, 

 it had been found at various points in New Jersey, at Schenectady, 

 Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo, N. Y., and Boston and Cambridge, Mass. 

 Within this range of cities it has since flourished and done great dam- 

 age, but has not greatly extended. It is found, however, in all the New 

 England States, and as far west as Illinois, and as far south as Wash- 

 ington, though not a troublesome pest at this last named point. 



Like a number of other important insect pests it is a European spe- 

 cies, but, although occurring commonly abroad, it is not known as a car- 



* Reprinted substantially from Good Housekeeping, April 13, 1889. 



