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The introduction of Icerya into the Azores is, according to Professor 
da Silva, a fact which is of easy explanation. The orange trees in these 
islands, exposed to the danger of being mutilated and torn by the winds, 
have been protected by planting certain trees around them. Acacia 
melanoxylon and Carinocarpus levigatus, Australian trees, were chosen 
for this purpose. These trees could have served to transport the insect. 
There seems some chance, however, that the insect was imported as 
early aS 1837-38 at Fayal, but in the opinion of the writer the insect 
which damaged the orange trees at that time was another species. 
We have advised the introduction of Vedalia cardinalis into Portugal, 
and, through the kindness of the State board of horticulture of Cali- 
fornia, we have been able to send two shipments of this beneficial lady- 
bird to Senhor Alfredo Carlos Le Coq, of the bureau of agriculture at 
Lisbon. 
A LITTLE-KNOWN TINEID MOTH OF INDOOR HABITS. 
A little tineid moth catalogued in the “ List of Lepidoptera of Boreal 
America” as Tinea ferruginella Huebn., was reared during May of 1896 
from a mass of Sweepings containing refuse grain, hay, and other similar 
material taken from the floor of a Washington feed store. About the 
same time other individuals were noticed flying about the lights in the 
writer’s room, and later this species was noticed in abundance at the 
electric lights in the business portion of this city. Captured moths ovi- 
posited freely, but for some reason the moth does not appear to have yet 
been reared ab ovo neither here nor elsewhere. Among the divisional 
records is one of this species having bred March 4 from dried leaves in 
a rearing jar, and in another instance the adult was reared from the 
_ larva. 
July 16, 1896, a larva was found by Mr. C. L. Marlatt in its case 
erawling upon the floor of the basement of the Department insectary. 
It was confined in a jar with dry clover and similar material, and the 
moth issued August 6. During the first week of September of the 
following year numerous larval cases of this tineid were gathered 
from a different basement connected with this office. 
The adult insect has been observed commonly indoors at Washington 
from March 4 to December 7. It will be seen that it is to be found 
nearly the year round, and occurs also most everywhere in habitations 
and in other buildings. 
In Brackenridge Clemens’s ‘‘Contributions to American Lepidopter- 
ology,” published in 1859, this species was described as new under the 
name Tinea crocicapitella, and in 1882 Lord Walsingham identified this 
with the European Blabophanes ferruginella Huebn. (Trans. Am. Ent. 
Soc., Vol. X, p. 170). Neither of the above writers mentioned either 
locality, occurrence, or habits, and nothing, so far as the writer ts 
aware, has been published concerning the habits of this species in 
American literature and only brief mention is made of it in foreign 
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