538 The New Carpet Beetle—Anthrenus Scrophularie. |August, 
examples from Oregon in 1871 or 1872. Later, in 1874, speci- 
mens 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 exam- 
ples reared by Mr. Fuller from larvae taken in New York city 
were clearly identical with A. scrophularie. Upon informing Dr. 
LeConte that examples of this species were in cabinets under the 
name of A. /epidus 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. scrophularig of Europe in its sutural 
line being white instead of red; but that in all probability it 
should only be regarded as a variety of the European species. 
Dr. LeConte suggests that it may have been imported into 
California from Southern Europe during the Spanish occupation 
of that country. The eastern invasion of the insect, he believes 
to have been within a few years through the importation of car- 
pets at New York. 
The accompanying figures, very faithfully drawn by Prof. 
Riley, represent A. scrophularig in three of its stages, viz: æ the 
larva, c the pupa, and d the imago or beetle. At ġ the skin of 
the larva, after the beetle has emerged from the fissure on the 
back, is shown. The figures are enlarged, the lines beside them 
representing the natural size. 
Fic. 1.—The New Carpet Beetle. 
The larva—the form in which it is usually found when pursu- 
ing its ravages beneath the carpets—measures, at maturity, about 
1 A. lepidus, breviter ovatus, supra niger, thoracis lateribus albo-squamosis, gutta 
~ mga inclusa, elytris fasciis tribus angustis suturaque albo-squamosis, macula antica 
_ suturali aureo-squamosa ornatis, basi parce PONTIA Long. .11 in San Diego, 
o Acad. Nat, Sci., Phila., 1854, p 
