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NOTE ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE CIGARETTE 
BEETLE IN COLUMBUS* 
By Herbert Osborn. 
The injuries of this insect have been reported from different 
points in the United States during the last eight or ten years but 
so far as I am aware no definite record of its appearance in this 
city has been published. It may be of interest, therefore, to note 
its occurrence and the conditions under which it has proven 
troublesome. It was first brought to my attention by one of the 
furniture firms of the city who reported the damage of certain 
plush upholstered furniture and desired information as to the 
insect and especially in reference to the probability of its having 
gained entrance into the articles while in their possession. An 
examination of the furniture showed the plush covering penetrated 
at points and the insect occurring in considerable numbers in the 
cotton immediately beneath the plush and in many cases, frag- 
ments of the plush covering mingled with the cotton. Under- 
neath the cotton in the filling, 110 specimens were observed. This 
evidence seems to show quite conclusively that the insect had 
entered after the covering had been put in place and was not due 
to the presence of beetles or their eggs or larvae in the material 
used for filling. It seems that the furniture had been sent to this 
firm for recovering ; kept in their shops but a few days, and 
returned to the owner, and that the injury of the insect had not 
been discovered until some eighteen months after being in the 
shops ; and that in the meantime the house had been closed and 
unused for a period of some six weeks. The conclusion seems 
evident that the attack originated in an infestation occurring, verj^ 
likely, during the time that the house remained unused, the 
beetles gaining access by means of cigarette packages or some 
infested article of furniture, and the fact that the articles were 
unused permitted the insect to become fairly well established. It 
may be remarked that this insect is likely to become prevalent in 
many of the cities of the State, and that prompt attention to its 
destruction, wherever it is noticed, is very important. Where 
Read before the Ohio State Academy of Science, Nov. 28, 1902, 
