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evident that the extreme heat of the past summer induced numerous 

 individuals of this species to fly northward, and it is also evident, from 

 the numerous reports of injury, that the species is established out- 

 doors, at least temporarily, in other localities than Philadelphia. 

 Writing- November 30, 1900, Mr. J. E. Walker states that this insect 

 was ruining- the wheat crop in the vicinity of Media, Pa. He writes 

 that it can not be fanned out, as the hull or injured kernel and the 

 insect are apparently so nearly of the same weight. In one instance 

 men at work upon wheat were obliged to leave the barn at various 

 intervals during the process of threshing to clear their throats and 

 relieve their noses from the flying insects, which came in clouds, both 

 dead and alive, from the machine. The presence of the insect in the 

 grain was not discovered until threshing commenced, in November. 

 Most of the wheat in that vicinity was threshed in July and sold, or 

 complaints of injury would probably have been general. 



Writing again January 23, our correspondent stated that after 

 inquiry among persons residing in the neighboring towns he ascertained 

 the extent of injury by this species to comprise a district radiating 

 from Media and extending from Philadelphia to Newtown Square, to 

 Westchester, to Kennett Square, to Ashland, Del., and up the Dela- 

 ware River to Philadelphia, which completed the circuit. He expa- 

 tiated on the difficulty of obtaining the information desired, owing to 

 a general suspicion on the part of persons interviewed that the infor- 

 mation which they might give would interfere with the sale of their 

 farms; also that it was simply out of the question to endeavor to per- 

 suade farmers to apply remedies to grain that had been threshed. 

 They were all willing to sell for what the grain might bring, and it 

 was left to the middleman to do the " doctoring." Some interesting 

 instances of infestation by this species were cited. One person owning 

 a farm at Newtown Square threshed his grain from the mow, shipped 

 600 bushels to Philadelphia, and when the car was opened the next day 

 the grain was so badly heated that a man walked on the top of it with- 

 out making an impression with his shoe soles. Those who threshed 

 immediately after harvest succeeded in effecting a sale of their wheat. 

 A milling company at Kennett Square was refusing to take wheat for 

 grinding, as several thousand bushels in stock was badty damaged 

 before the presence of the moth was discovered. Another mill at Ash- 

 land, Del., was caught like the preceding. Six thousand bushels was 

 damaged. Injury was general about Westchester, especially to wheat 

 which was stored in the sheaf and permitted to remain some length of 

 time before threshing. 



February 6, 1901, we received information from a milling company 

 of New York City that this species, specimens of which were sent, 

 was very generally destructive throughout New Jersey and eastern 

 Pennsylvania. 



