Division of Entomology. 



C. II. FEUNALD. 



HOUSEHOLD PESTS. 



Diiriug the past year many demands have been made on this Divi- 

 sion for information concerning insects wliich are tronblesomo, to 

 houseiteepers. As similar inquiries are being made almost daily, as to 

 the habits and the best methods of destroying these pests, it seems 

 to be an economy of time to publish an account of them in the Bul- 

 letin. 



Fig. 1. Anthrenus scrophularia! Linn. «, larva; 6, skiuof a larva; 

 All much enlarged. (After Eiley.) 



pupa ; d, beetle. 



THE BUFFALO CARPET BEETLE. 



Anthrenus scrophularicp. Linn. 



This insect is exceedingly destructive to all kinds of woolen mater- 

 ials and also to collections of insects and plants. The opinion that 

 it injures cotton or silk goods, lace curtains, etc., must be erroneous, 

 for I have repeatedly put the larvae or young of this beetle into bot- 



