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HOUSEKOLD AND STORED-PRODUCTS INSECTS 
LEAD CABLE BORER (ScoMcia doclivis Lee.) 
California. E. 0. Essig (June): Unusually abundant in parts of central 
and northern California this spring and has "been damaging hardv/ood 
house finishings and wine tanks. 
DRIED FRUIT BEETLE ( Carpophilus henipterus L. ) 
California. D. F. Barnes (May J>1): Dried fruit boetle traps operated 
in the vicinity of Fresno from February 26 to May 19 indicated that 
the overwintering and spring population was less than half the 
8-year average hut about throe timos that of 1937 • 
COCKROACHES (Blattidae) 
Washington. M. H. Hatch (May 28): Blatta orientalis L. taken in an 
apartment house at Kent, in west-central Washington. Not previously 
recorded from this State. Poriplaneta americana (L.) was taken in 
a restaurant at Seattle, also not previously recorded from the State. 
