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A CERAMBYCIB ( Stromat ium fulvun Villers) 
Net? Jersey. E. A. Back (September): Oil August . 24. collected on furniture 
from which specimens were emerging about 1 year after construction. 
A European species, more or less cosmopolitan, it is not known to be 
established in the United States, according to 77. S. Fisher. (Dot. by 
77. S. Fisher#) 
A FUNGUS BEETLE ( Tyrhaea fumata L.) 
Minnesota. A. G. Ruggl e s and C. E. Mickel (September 13) : Reported 
attacking grain in extreme abundance in two areas in southern 
Minnesota. 
AN AMBROSIA BEETLE ( Pterocyclon fasciatum Say) 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (Au/mst l6) : Reported as doing damage to 
mahogany wood at a large factory in Memphis. (Det. by M. 17. Blackman.) 
TREE LICE (Psocidae) 
United States. E. A. Back (September): Psocids received from New York 
City on August 8, 9* H» 13* l6, and 18, from apartment houses. 
Infestations general in most instances in recently completed and 
occupied buildings. Reports of abundance on August 18 in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. , in new apartment house, just completed. On August 1 6 at Brooklyn 
abundant in an apartment built 1 year. On August 20 from Garrett 
Park, Md. , specimens of Ectopsocus sp. received, of which A. B. Gurney, 
who made the determination, writes: n Thi s is a species that we have 
received a. number of times in quarantine from Mexico but further 
studies will be necessary to identify the species . 11 Psocids on August 
6 at Sophia, 77. Va. , very annoying in apartment house with walls of 
a vegetable insulation board. Reported on July 15 in a new upholster- 
ed sofa at Georgetown, S, C. On August 27 at Cleveland, Ohio, trouble- 
some in house painted during July, after period of 15 years of neglect; 
no psocids observed before painting. Reported in August in Barrington, 
111. , as abundant inside and outside of newly built house. Reported 
on August 11 as unusually abundant in a house at Boise, Idaho. On 
August 11 reported as exceedingly abundant in house recently completed 
but unoccupied for several months before the wests were observed. 
