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LEPIDOPTERA. 
crop of stored grain with their progeny. ^Ir. Samuel Ju¬ 
dah, of Vincennes, Indiana, in a short and very sensible 
article, published in “ The Indiana Farmer and Gardener ” 
for October 4, 1845, seems to have come to nearly the 
same conclusions. Mr. Richard Owen, of Xew Harmony, 
Indiana, has given a very good history of this insect, accom¬ 
panied with wood-cuts, in The Cultivator,’’ for July and 
Xovember, 1846. To this I may have occasion again to 
refer, as also to two other articles, on the same subject, by 
Edward Ruffin, Esq., in the sixth volume of “ The Ameri¬ 
can Agriculturist,” pages 52 and 93, published in February 
and ^larch, 1847. 
In the summer of 1840, Mr. E. C. Hendck, of Xew Ha¬ 
ven, Connecticut, sent to me a few grains of wheat, that had 
been eaten by moth-worms precisely in the same way as grain 
is attacked by the Angoumois insect; and a gentleman, to 
whom this moth-eaten wheat was shown, informed me that 
he had seen grain thus affected in iMaine. Unfortunately, 
the insects contained in this wheat were dead when received, 
haHng perished in the chrysalis state. Had they lived to 
finish their transformations, they would have afforded me 
an opportunity of ascertaining their suspected identity with 
the fly-weevil of Virginia, and the Angoumois moth of 
France. All my attempts to obtain specimens of the fly- 
weevil from the South and West were unsuccessful, till the 
10th of Xovember, 1845, when I had the pleasure of receiv¬ 
ing a parcel of damaged wheat and a bottle full of the moths 
from Richmond, Virginia, through the kindness of Mr. John 
Dunlop Osborne, then a student in the Law School of 
Harvard College. Living specimens, and the insects in the 
worm or larva state, were still wanting. These were most 
unexpectedly obtained nearer home. 
The late Samuel M. Burnside, Esq., of Worcester, told 
me, in ihe summer of 1844, that he had a quantity of corn, 
grown the year before, which had become infested with 
insects, and that he found great numbers of the insects, on 
