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The Buffalo Carpet Beetle is doing considerable damage to 

 carpets in southern and western Maine, and has also been reported 

 from Bangor and Belfast. We wrote an article for the Lewiston 

 Journal on this insect, which is published in the body of this report. 



The Maple Tree Borer or Beautiful Clytus, a common insect 

 in Maine, was received from Mr. McKeen and found in Augusta, 

 about maple trees. 



The Pea Weavel is very common in Maine. We figured this 

 insect in our last report on page 175. This insect can be readily 

 destroyed in stored peas by the use of Bisulphide of Carbon, as 

 recommended for destroying the Bean Weevil in our last report on 

 p. 176. 



The Brown Grain Beetle {Tribolium ferrugineum, Fab.) was 

 received from Mr. Ediuard of South Paris. The specimens were 

 in middlings which were literally alive with them. It is a brown 

 insect, oblong in form and about one-eighth to three-sixteenths of 

 an inch in length. It frequents neglected grainaries, museums, 

 kitchens and storerooms feeding upon both vegetable and animal 

 matter. 



The Oak Bark Beetle (Magdalis olyra) was received from Mr. 

 Moore of Presque Isle where it was doing considerable damage to 

 the foliage of elm trees. So far as we know this species has never 

 been reported as an elm tree insect. 



Those insects that require more than a passing notice and record 

 are described more fully in the body of the report. 



Directions for Sending Specimens 

 Will be found in the Annual Report of the Experiment Station, 

 1888, p. 194, or in the Maine Agricultural Report, 1888, p. 158. 



Correspondence. 

 Correspondence regarding injurious insects and fungi is invited. 

 Plants and insects will be named whether injurious, beneficial or 

 neutral. When of economic importance their benefits or injuries 

 will be pointed out and remedies for injuries suggested. 



Remarks. 

 The cuts to illustrate this report were obtained as follows : Fig. 

 1, loaned by Prof. Halstead ; Figs. 7, 8 and 9, from J. B. Lippin- 

 cott & Co. ; Fig. 11, from U. S. Dept. of Agric ; Fig. 5, loaned 

 by Prof. J. B. Smith ; Figs. 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12 and PI. 1, are after 

 drawings made by the writer. 



