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Anthrentjs scrophclarle Linn. — Mr. A. W. Cheever, 

 of the New England Farmer, states that he has had in 

 his possession in confinement in a small paper box, for more 

 than two years, a larva of Anthrenus scrophularice, and that it is 

 still quite lively. It has moulted three times, and appears to have 

 eaten a brother specimen meanwhile. It had also had one or two 

 very light feedings of wool, but shows no apparent increase in size. 



Prof- H. M. Seely writes that the above named insect invaded 

 Middlebury, Vt., in 1884 and 1885, to an alarming extent. To 

 suppress its ravages he had prepared and distributed among some 

 of his friends an insecticide consisting of napthaline, camphor and 

 kerosene. This was used both as a liquid and as a solid. In the 

 latter case it was sprinkled at the borders of the carpets with a 

 view of destroying the insect if present, and preventing the deposit 

 of the eggs. The result was to be observed upon raising the 

 carpets, and reported at the next house-cleaning. As no report 

 was received, the experiment was probably not successful. 



Prof. W. F. Robinson, of Elizabeth N. J., states that he found 

 this larva eating the cotton lace of an infant's cloak [?]. He had 

 nearly exterminated the insect from his house by persistently 

 fighting it. He had purchased four gallons of naptha and poured 

 it along the floor joinings and base boards. 



Trichodes Nuttali Kirby. — This insect occurs abundantly at 

 Centre, Albany county, K. Y., feeding on the pollen of the ox-eye 

 daisy, Leucanthemum vulgar e ; forty eight examples were taken 

 in ten minutes from a road-side patch. One example of T. 

 apivorus G-erm., was among them. 



Psenocerus supernotatus (Say). — An imago of this longicorn 

 beetle was found within a burrow in a small stalk of Memispernum 

 Canadense, among some material collected January 25, 1873, as 

 per label, and laid aside for examination. 



Dactolypius destructor Corns. — This insect was received for 

 name from Dr. H. Knowlton. See Entom.ologisV s Monthly Maga- 

 zine, for December, 1886, pages 154, 155, for the recent detection 

 of this Coccid, in England, infesting some cucumber plants in a 

 forcing-pit. 



Ptinus quadrimaculatus Mels. — Three of the beetles were taken, 

 February seventeenth, dead, from a box of dragon-flies (Odonata) 



