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received the previous year from South Britain, Conn. Two dead 

 individuals had previously been discovered in another case of insects. 

 The species may, therefore, be enrolled in the entomological 

 black-list of museum pests, where it has not hitherto had place. 



Anthonomus musculus Say. — A new strawberry pest made its 

 appearance on Staten Island, N. Y., early in June, 1884. It 

 proved to be a small beetle belonging to the Curculionidce or 

 snout-beetles, known as Anthonomus m.usculus Say. The first 

 notice of it as a strawberry pest was in July of 1883, when its 

 ravages were brought to the notice of Prof. A. J. Cook, of the 

 State Agricultural College at Lansing, Mich., as having appeared 

 in countless thousands at Phoenix, Mich., and was ruining the 

 entire strawberry crop by puncturing the fruit. The attack is 

 noticed and a figure given of the beetle, with its description, in 

 the Thirteenth Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society 

 of Michigan, for the year 1883 (p. 155). 



Upon Staten Island, according to Prof. Riley's observations of 

 it, the beetle attacked the buds, causing them to droop or shrivel 

 and dry up. The " Sharpless " variety was found to have suffered 

 the most from the attack. 



Atropos divinatoria (0. Fabr.). — Prof. E. W. Claypole, of 

 Akron, O., referring to the notice, in the Second Report of the New 

 York State Entomologist, of Atropos divinatoria infesting a dwell- 

 ing-house (pp. 189-201), states that a similar case had been brought 

 to his notice by one of his colleagues, where a room was found 

 similarly infested and the like suspicion of their introduction by 

 guests was entertained. Recommendation was made of scouring 

 and airing the room for their extermination. The short time that 

 had elapsed (about three months) did not suffice to show the effects 

 of the recommendation. 



Prof. Claypole also reports the presence of Anthrenus scrophu- 

 larice in Akron, Ohio, for the past seven years. 



