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BLACK CARPET BEETLE ; ( Attagenus p iceus 01 iv.) 
Rhode Island. 3. Eddy (April 22): ■ Reported as household insect. 
Michigan. R. Hutson (April 22): In Detroit common in a house after it 
had "been fumigated. 
VARIED CARPET BEETLE (A nthrenus verba'sc i L.) 
District of Coltunhia. E. A. Back (March 28>) : Adult specimens received 
from a house in Washington. 
A CLOTHES MOTH ( Tineola walsinghami Busck) 
Elorida. E. A. Back (March): Larval cast and reared adult received from 
house in Saint Petersburg* (Det, by C.' Heinrich. ) 
BROWN SPIDER BEETLE ( Ptinus brunneus Dufts.) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (April 4): Pound in flour and feed grain at 
Plorence. 
Ohio. T, H. Parks (April 22): Specimens received during March from 
Geauga County, in the northeastern part of the State, and from Clark 
County, in the west— central section, with statement that they were 
annoying in occupied houses. 
Mississippi. . C. Lyle (April 25): Adults received from Tippah County, 
in the northeastern part of the State, on April 1. 
STORED GRAIN INSECTS (Cole op ter a) 
New Jersey, E. A. Back (April 21 ) : Adults of Sitophilus granarius L. 
were received from a duplex house in Summit, in the northern part 
of the State. 
District of Columbia. E. A. Back (March 2S) : In Washington specimens 
of the lander beetle ( Dermestes cadaver inus P.) were collected in 
the commissary of a hospital after fumigation of the building. 
(Det. by H. S. Barber.) 
Alabama. J. M, Robinson (April S) : Tenebrio obscurus P. found in stored 
cereal products at Wallace in the southern part of the State. 
Minnesota. A. G. Ruggles and C. E. Mickel (April l6) : Cynaeus angustus 
Lee, found in stored corn in Lakefield, in the southwestern part of 
the State. 
North Dakota, J. A. Munro (April): Specimens of Tribolium madens Charp# 
and Cathartus advena Waltl. were sent in from Lunds Valley in 
Mountrail County, and from Wahpeton, in Richland County, on April 11; 
of T_. confusum Duv, from Wahpeton on April 11; and of Laemophloeus 
minutus Oliv, from Wil Arose, in Williams County, and from Wahpeton 
on April l6. 
