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has also been detected in Albany, but no serious ravages have 

 been reported. It has occasioned much alarm in several 

 places in the State of New Jersey. Without doubt it is com 

 mitting its depredations in many localities where its work is 

 ascribed to the carpet-moth, than which it is a far more per 

 nicious insect. 



A lady to whom I was relating the destructive capabilities 

 of the new pest, congratulated herself that her carpets were 

 free from it. The following morning her husband brought to 

 me a beetle which he had taken from his face during the 

 night, which proved to be the creature that I had described 

 to her the previous evening the abundant presence of which 

 in her home, she had not suspected. 



From the serious nature of its depredations as above refer 

 red to but in part, the secrecy with which it conducts them, 

 the extreme difficulty with any known appliance of eradicat 

 ing it it becomes very important, as a preventive .against its 

 alarming increase, that it should, from the outset, be corn- 

 batted by all the means known to be efficacious against its 

 allied forms, or which may give promise of success as against 

 a new foe. 



It may be interesting, in connection with the above -notice 

 of this last importation, to recall the fact that nearly all of our 

 most injurious insects have been introduced from Europe. 

 Of a long catalogue given by Professor Riley, in one of his 

 valuable reports, a few may be mentioned here : 



The Hessian -fly (Cecidomyia destructor), the wheat-midge 

 (Diplosis tritici), the cheese-maggot (Piopliila casei), the 

 house-fly (Musca domestica), the currant-worm (Nematus 

 ventricosus), oyster- shell bark- louse (Asp id lotus concMfor. 

 mis\ several species of plant-lice (Aphides), the cockroach 

 (Blatta orientalis), the croton-bug (EctoMa germanica), the 

 meal-worm (Tenebrio molitor), the grain- weetil (Sitophilus 

 granarius), the bee-moth (Galleria cereana), the codling-moth 

 of the apple (Carpocapsa pomonella), the cabbage-moth (Plu- 

 tella cruci/erarum\ the carpet-moth (Tinea tapetzelld),* the 

 clothes-moth (Tinea vestianella\ the fur-moth (Tinea pelio- 

 nella),* the currant borer (^Egeria tipuliformis\ and within 

 the few past years, the asparagus-beetle (Crioceris asparagi), 

 and the well-known destructive cabbage-butterfly (Pier is 



*Mr. V. T. Chambers finds differences in these two species from the European ones 

 (Canadian Entomologist, 7, pp. 124, 125). 



