SOME LITTLE-KNOWN INSECTS AFFECTING STORED 
VEGETABLE PRODUCTS. 
A STOREHOUSE MOTH NEW TO THE UNITED STATES, WITH NOTES 
ON OTHER SPECIES. 
The two or three years just passed are notable for the discovery of a 
number of new insect enemies to stored products of a vegetable origin 
to be added to the list of such species gathered by the writer at the 
Columbian Exposition and elsewhere and enumerated in the pages of 
Insect Life (Vol. VI, p. 219, etc.; VII, p. 326) and in other publications. 
THE DRIED CURRANT MOTH. 
(Ephestia cahiritella Zell.) 
Among other species obtained at both the Columbian and Cotton 
States expositions, and brought prominently to attention by the mate- 
rial collected at Atlanta, was one moth of the family Phycitida? and 
genus Ephestia which manifested its presence by the work of its larva 
in nearly every exhibit of chocolate nuts or cacao beans. Moths were 
flying in numbers in a case of cacao exhibited by Jamaica at the Colum- 
bian Exposition, and a series of specimens of these and from Venezuela 
were secured. Specimens were also obtained from these two countries 
at the Atlanta Exposition. 
It was obviously one of the species that are constantly being shipped 
to this country from abroad, but. as no food material for it other than 
cacao beans was known, it could not at first positively be said to be 
permanently located here, although such was surmised to be the case. 
The almost simultaneous discovery of the insect at Atlanta and in 
infested material from Ohio and the District of Columbia led to its 
study and identification. 
The specimens bred did not correspond with anything in the National 
Museum, nor with descriptions of any species known to occur in this 
country. They agreed best with descriptions of Ephestia cahiritella 
and with the illustration of this species furnished in The Entomologist 
of 1890 (pi. 4, fig. L2), but not being quite satisfied with this tentative 
identification a series was sent to Mr. Edw, Meyriek. of Marlborough 
College. England, who has done special work in the Phyciiida-. From 
him word has been received to the effect that they are referable to 
