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  Thietieth 
  Report 
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  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  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 
  {Piophila 
  casei), 
  the 
  

   house-fly 
  {Musca 
  domestical), 
  the 
  currant-worm 
  {JVematus 
  

   ventricosus), 
  oyster- 
  shell 
  bark-louse 
  {Aspidiotus 
  concMfor. 
  

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

   {Blatta 
  orientalis), 
  the 
  croton-bug 
  {Ectobia 
  germanica), 
  the 
  

   meal-worm 
  (Tenebrio 
  molitof), 
  the 
  grain- 
  weevil 
  {Sitophilus 
  

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

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

   tella 
  cruciferarum), 
  the 
  carpet-moth 
  {Tinea 
  tapetzelld)* 
  the 
  

   clothes-moth 
  {Tinea 
  vestianella), 
  the 
  fur-moth 
  {Tinea 
  pelio- 
  

   nella),* 
  the 
  currant 
  borer 
  {Mgeria 
  Upuliformis), 
  and 
  within 
  

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

   and 
  the 
  well-known 
  destructive 
  cabbage-butterfly 
  {Pieris 
  

  

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

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

  

  