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webbed-up kernels, and that specimens of the moth itself were not at 
that time available. A second station entomologist of whom the writer 
made inquiry wrote substantially as follows: "I am afraid that this is 
one of those instances where a man speaks on traditional knowledge 
and without making any serious investigations. My case is, I fear, 
very similar to 's, because on looking up the matter I find that I 
have not a single specimen of anything that I would be willing to say 
is Tinea granella, while I do have the Plodia inter punetella. I have 
simply judged by what I have seen in the way of webbed-up grain and 
the numerous little moths that I have seen at times and have even 
occasionally captured and looked at with no very critical eye. In other 
words, I have absolutely no positive evidence of the occurrence of the 
insect in this State, but I do feel certain that there is a species different 
from the Plodia and differing also from the Angoumois moth which is 
found in granaries and barns in this State. I am very sorry that I can 
not help you to a decision in this matter; also that I should have been 
led to report the presence of the iusect from a mere assumption. My 
only excuse is that no one has ever before questioned the occurrence 
of the insect in this country or doubted that the webbing of the grain 
which is so common was done in the main by this particular species of 
insect." 
UNPUBLISHED RECORDS OF THE MOTH IN NORTH AMERICA. 
In the record books of this Department and those of the late Dr. 
Riley are five entries referring to this species, but none are full and 
some are inaccessible at the present writing. These note references 
have been compared with specimens in the National Museum bearing 
the corresponding numbers, the result showing that all the biologic 
material except a single specimen recently unearthed in an unexpected 
place was reared from fungi. This specimen bears the following label : 
"Bred in flour barrel from S. Lockwood, Freehold, N. J." One series 
evidently correctly referred to Tinea granella is labeled: "On ergot 
from H. Osborn, Ames, Iowa, issued February 9, 1887." Mr. Osborn 
has recently written that these specimens were taken from exhibit sam- 
ples in the agricultural museum of the Iowa State Agricultural College, 
and that "they were doubtless brought from a distance, possibly from 
abroad, and would not have any weight in regard to the species being- 
established in the locality." 
Two moths, indistinguishable from granella, were reared by Mr. Theo. 
Pergancle from a rotten fungus growng on the Department grounds in 
Washington, D. C, and it should be added of this species that different 
European writers have recorded it as living in fungi and even in dried 
fruits. 
SPECIES LIKELY TO BE CONFUSED WITH TINEA GRANELLA. 
There are several other species of Tinea, that occasionally occur in 
storehouses or which from their habits and appearance are liable to be 
