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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Packard 
  : 
  Guide 
  Study 
  Ins., 
  1869, 
  pp. 
  413-414, 
  fig. 
  335 
  ; 
  Entomol. 
  for 
  

   Beginn., 
  1888, 
  p. 
  128, 
  fig. 
  149 
  (brief 
  mention). 
  

  

  Riley: 
  2nd 
  Rept. 
  Ins. 
  Mo., 
  1870, 
  p. 
  10 
  (an 
  imported 
  pest) 
  ; 
  in 
  Amer. 
  

   Entomol., 
  ii, 
  1870, 
  pp. 
  78-79 
  (habits 
  of 
  skippers; 
  their 
  natural 
  

   food), 
  pp. 
  180, 
  339 
  (mention); 
  in 
  id., 
  iii, 
  1880, 
  pp. 
  23-24 
  

   (injuring 
  smoked 
  hams). 
  

  

  WiLLARD 
  : 
  in 
  Amer. 
  Entomol., 
  ii, 
  1870, 
  p. 
  78 
  (treatment 
  of 
  skippery 
  

   cheese). 
  

  

  Glover: 
  MS. 
  Notes 
  from 
  My 
  Journ., 
  1874, 
  p. 
  40 
  (said 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  

   bred 
  from 
  salt 
  alone 
  by 
  Germar). 
  

  

  : 
  Country 
  Gent., 
  xHv, 
  1879, 
  p. 
  727 
  (general 
  account). 
  

  

  Jacobs 
  : 
  in 
  Comp.-Rend. 
  des 
  Seances, 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Belg., 
  1882, 
  pp. 
  cxxiv- 
  

   cxxv 
  (synonymy, 
  notes). 
  

  

  Mann 
  : 
  in 
  Psyche, 
  iv, 
  1884, 
  p. 
  207 
  (reference). 
  

  

  Fyles; 
  in 
  17th 
  Ann. 
  Rept. 
  Entomolog. 
  Soc. 
  Ont., 
  1887, 
  p. 
  38 
  (brief 
  

   notice). 
  

  

  RrrzEiviA 
  Bos: 
  Tiersche 
  Schadl. 
  Niitzlinge, 
  1891, 
  pp. 
  620-621 
  (brief 
  

   mention). 
  

  

  Kellogg: 
  in 
  Insect 
  Life, 
  v, 
  1892, 
  p. 
  116 
  (injuring 
  smoked 
  meats, 
  dura- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  stages), 
  

  

  Murtfeldt: 
  in 
  Insect 
  Life, 
  v, 
  1892, 
  pp. 
  135-136 
  (bred 
  from 
  ham); 
  in 
  

   id., 
  vi, 
  1893, 
  pp. 
  170-175 
  (detailed 
  account) 
  ; 
  the 
  same 
  in 
  24th 
  

   Ann. 
  Rept. 
  Entomolog. 
  Soc. 
  Ont., 
  1895, 
  pp. 
  98-102. 
  

  

  Riley-Howard 
  : 
  Insect 
  Life, 
  vi, 
  1894, 
  p. 
  209 
  (damage 
  by, 
  duration 
  of 
  

   stages), 
  p. 
  226 
  (mention.) 
  

  

  CoMSTOCKs: 
  Manual 
  Study 
  Insects, 
  1895, 
  pp. 
  486-487 
  (brief 
  mention). 
  

  

  Howard 
  : 
  in 
  Bull. 
  4 
  New 
  Series, 
  Div. 
  Entomol., 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dept. 
  Agricul., 
  

   1896, 
  pp. 
  102-104, 
  fig. 
  48 
  (general 
  account). 
  

  

  Lintner 
  : 
  in 
  Country 
  Gentleman, 
  Ixi, 
  1896, 
  p. 
  293 
  (general 
  account). 
  

  

  Smith: 
  Econom. 
  Entomol,, 
  1896, 
  pp. 
  367-369, 
  fig. 
  423 
  (habits, 
  remedies). 
  

  

  A 
  gentleman 
  writing 
  from 
  Moorefield, 
  W. 
  Va., 
  states, 
  that 
  about 
  the 
  

   15th 
  of 
  January, 
  some 
  meat 
  in 
  his 
  cellar 
  which 
  had 
  lain 
  in 
  salt 
  two 
  

   months, 
  was 
  found 
  infested 
  with 
  '• 
  skippers." 
  He 
  was 
  of 
  the 
  opinion 
  that 
  

   " 
  the 
  insect 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  meat 
  when 
  butchered, 
  and 
  if 
  the 
  meat 
  had 
  been 
  

   properly 
  cured 
  by 
  salt, 
  the 
  germ 
  would 
  have 
  been 
  destroyed." 
  

  

  Request 
  was 
  made 
  for 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  infested 
  meat 
  containing 
  the 
  

   "ski()pers," 
  but 
  answer 
  was 
  returned 
  that 
  there 
  was 
  none 
  of 
  it 
  left, 
  — 
  

   what 
  disposition 
  had 
  been 
  made 
  of 
  it 
  was 
  not 
  stated. 
  It 
  was 
  learned 
  

   that 
  the 
  meat 
  was 
  pork, 
  and 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  point 
  of 
  being 
  removed 
  for 
  con- 
  

   verting 
  into 
  bacon, 
  when 
  the 
  infestation 
  was 
  discovered. 
  

  

  There 
  can 
  be 
  but 
  little 
  doubt 
  that 
  the 
  insect 
  was 
  the 
  " 
  cheese-skipper,'^ 
  

   which 
  is 
  also 
  known 
  as 
  the 
  " 
  ham-skipper 
  " 
  from 
  its 
  frequent 
  occurrence 
  

   in 
  smoked 
  hams. 
  There 
  would 
  be 
  no 
  hesitation 
  in 
  referring 
  it, 
  without 
  

   question, 
  to 
  this 
  insect, 
  were 
  it 
  not, 
  first, 
  for 
  the 
  unusual 
  time 
  of 
  its 
  

   appearance 
  — 
  early 
  in 
  January, 
  — 
  the 
  earliest 
  record 
  heretofore 
  given 
  of 
  

   it. 
  It 
  was 
  thought 
  that 
  its 
  early 
  appearance 
  m.ay 
  have 
  been 
  the 
  result 
  

   of 
  a 
  furnace-heated 
  or 
  otherwise 
  unusually 
  warm 
  cellar 
  drawing 
  the 
  flies 
  

  

  