1878.] The New Carpet Beetle—Anthrenus Scrophulané. 543 
We are unable to give at the present any precise statement of 
its distribution. It is known in Oregon, as well as in California. 
It is believed to be distributed throughout most of the western 
States, and it is known to occur in various portions of the State 
of New York. It is announced as having appeared in considerable 
force in Syracuse. In Utica it has inflicted serious damage in many 
dwellings. From Brockport the information is received that “ it 
has been very destructive for the last three years. In spite of all 
the means which can be used, it is increasing in number, and 
threatens to destroy the carpets and all other woolen goods.” It 
has occurred at Buffalo, but not so abundantly as to have 
originated the name sometimes applied to it—the Buffalo bug—a 
name given to it on the Pacific coast probably, from a fancied re- 
semblance to that animal. Its presence has also been detected in 
Albany, but no serious ravages have been reported. It has occa- 
sioned much alarm in several places in the State of New Jersey. 
Without doubt it is committing its depredations in many localities 
where its work is ascribed to the carpet-moth, than which it is a 
far more pernicious 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 referred 
to but in part, the secrecy with which it conducts them, the ex- © 
treme difficulty with any known appliance of eradicating it—it 
becomes very important, as a preventive against its alarming in- 
crease, that it should, from the outset, be combatted 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 ova in one of his valuable reports, 
a few may be mentioned here 
The Hessian-fly (Caidos destructor), the wheat-midge (L- 
ex tritici), the cheese-maggot (Piophila casei), the ee 
