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  Thirtieth 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  [16] 
  

  

  dently 
  matured, 
  and 
  had 
  assumed 
  their 
  quiescent 
  pupal 
  state 
  

   within 
  the 
  skin 
  of 
  the 
  larva, 
  first 
  rent 
  by 
  a 
  split 
  along 
  the 
  back 
  

   for 
  the 
  escape 
  of 
  the 
  perfect 
  insect. 
  At 
  this 
  stage 
  they 
  pre- 
  

   sented 
  characters 
  which 
  led 
  me 
  to 
  refer 
  them, 
  in 
  all 
  probability, 
  

   to 
  the 
  genus 
  Anthrenus. 
  

  

  In 
  October, 
  the 
  first 
  perfect 
  insect 
  emerged. 
  Being 
  entirely 
  

   new 
  to 
  me, 
  they 
  were 
  sent 
  to 
  Dr. 
  LeConte, 
  the 
  distinguished 
  

   coleopterist 
  of 
  Philadelphia, 
  for 
  determination. 
  He 
  returned 
  

   answer 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  the 
  Antlirenus 
  scrophularice 
  — 
  a 
  species 
  

   well 
  known 
  in 
  Europe 
  for 
  its 
  destructiveness, 
  but 
  now 
  for 
  the 
  

   first 
  time 
  detected 
  in 
  this 
  country. 
  

  

  Notice 
  of 
  the 
  discovery 
  was 
  communicated 
  by 
  me 
  to 
  the 
  

   Albany 
  Institute 
  at 
  its 
  meeting 
  of 
  October 
  17th, 
  1876, 
  and 
  a 
  

   report 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Albany 
  Argus 
  of 
  October 
  

   21st. 
  Owing 
  to 
  the 
  interest 
  attached 
  to 
  the 
  introduction 
  in 
  our 
  

   country 
  of 
  another 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  already 
  formidable 
  list 
  of 
  

   injurious 
  insects 
  of 
  European 
  origin, 
  the 
  paper, 
  or 
  extracts 
  

   therefrom, 
  appeared 
  in 
  several 
  of 
  the 
  journals 
  of 
  this 
  and 
  

   adjoining 
  States. 
  Through 
  the 
  publicity 
  given 
  it, 
  I 
  became 
  

   informed 
  of 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  the 
  insect 
  in 
  many 
  localities 
  

   in 
  New 
  York 
  and 
  other 
  States. 
  Examples 
  of 
  a 
  beetle, 
  believed 
  

   to 
  conform 
  to 
  the 
  brief 
  description 
  which 
  I 
  had 
  given 
  of 
  A. 
  

   scrophularice, 
  and 
  known 
  to 
  possess 
  the 
  like 
  habit 
  of 
  feeding 
  

   upon 
  carpets, 
  were 
  sent 
  to 
  me 
  by 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  S. 
  Fuller 
  of 
  the 
  Rural 
  

   New- 
  Yorker, 
  for 
  comparison. 
  The 
  species 
  had 
  been 
  in 
  his 
  

   cabinet 
  for 
  some 
  time, 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Antlirenus 
  lepidus 
  

   Le 
  Conte, 
  having 
  received 
  the 
  first 
  examples 
  from 
  Oregon 
  in 
  

   1871 
  or 
  1872. 
  Later, 
  in 
  1874, 
  specimens 
  referred 
  by 
  him 
  to 
  the 
  

   same 
  species 
  were 
  found 
  abundantly 
  in 
  a 
  dwelling 
  in 
  Market 
  

   street, 
  New 
  York, 
  and 
  thereafter 
  in 
  various 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  city 
  

   and 
  neighboring 
  localities. 
  The 
  examples 
  reared 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

   Fuller 
  from 
  larvae 
  taken 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  city 
  were 
  clearly 
  identi- 
  

   cal 
  with 
  A. 
  scrophulario3. 
  Upon 
  informing 
  Dr. 
  Le 
  Conte 
  

   that 
  examples 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  were 
  in 
  cabinets 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  

   of 
  A. 
  lepidus 
  and 
  requesting 
  an 
  explanation, 
  he 
  wrote 
  me 
  

   that 
  the 
  latter 
  name 
  had 
  been 
  given 
  by 
  him 
  to 
  a 
  form 
  which 
  

   he 
  had 
  found 
  on 
  flowers 
  at 
  San 
  Francisco 
  and 
  San 
  Jose 
  in 
  

   1850 
  ; 
  * 
  that 
  it 
  differed 
  from 
  the 
  A. 
  scrophularice 
  of 
  Europe 
  in 
  

  

  *A. 
  lepidus, 
  breviter 
  ovatus, 
  supra 
  niger, 
  thoracis 
  lateribus 
  albo-squamosis, 
  gutta 
  nigra 
  

   inclusa, 
  elytrus 
  fasciis 
  tribus 
  angustis 
  suturaque 
  albo-squamosis, 
  macula 
  antica 
  suturali 
  

   aureo-squamosa 
  ornatis, 
  basi 
  parce 
  albo-squamosis. 
  Long. 
  .11 
  in 
  San 
  Diego, 
  Cal. 
  — 
  Proc. 
  

   Acad. 
  Nat. 
  Sci. 
  PMla., 
  1854, 
  p. 
  112. 
  

  

  