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ntinued to increase in numbers until the year 1760, when it had 
3 distributed over the adjacent provinces, swarming in grana- 
id fields. Its depredations were then frightful, the damage to 
being not only so great as to deprive the inhabitants of the 
of paying their rent and taxes, but threatening them with 
and pestilence from want of wholesome bread 2 . 
3 ems to have continued to work more or less damage until 
vhen Dr. Herpin , 3 who was engaged in a study of the insect, 
that while it had disappeared somewhat from the central dis¬ 
it had continued to spread in others, and expressed fears of 
rrence of the troubles of 1760; but these anticipations do not 
]0 have been realized. On the contrary, the pest must have 
r decreased in number; for in 1867 Dr. Boisduval , 4 an emi- 
^rench authority, stated that it was not found by entomolo- 
>f that time. The first to call public attention to its presence 
erica was Colonel Landon Carter, of Sabine Hall, Virginia, in 
munieation to the American Philosophical Society of Phila- 
a, in the year 1768. 
mel Landon’s communication was published in the Transac- 
Df the Society, where it was followed by some remarks by the 
ittee of husbandry, to the effect that “it was said that injuries 
sat by these fly weevils began in North Carolina about forty 
previous,” which would carry the record back to about the 
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mollis A. G. Bose, who was sent to this country by the French 
iment in 1796, and resided for some time in Wilmington, N. 
und the moths so abundant in that state as to extinguish a 
h when he entered his granary in the night. 
jm these two states—Virginia and North Carolina—it seems to 
Upread over the state of Kentucky, and the southern part of 
j Indiana and Illinois, and was found also in Massachusetts as 
I as the year 1814. 
precise date of its first appearance in Illinois, it is obviously 
sible to determine. 
?ould naturally follow the direction of emigration, particularly 
the climate was suited to its development, it being almost 
sible to transport grain from districts where the insect is 
jtant, without including with it more or less in which the worms 
, *s are present. 
i Brackenridge Clemens states in the Proceedings of the Plnla- 
ia Academy of Natural Sciences for 1860, that he had obtained 
nens from wheat distributed by the Department of Agriculture 
3 years 1854-55. 
•3 Farmer's Review of July 28, 1881, calls attention to the pres- 
of a new pest, a small moth, that had appeared in the gram 
whose larva burrowed into and ate out the centre of the 
Is, and also states that this larva attacks corn, not only in the 
>ut after it has been shelled and placed in store. 
3 S rs. Halliday Bros., of Cairo, Illinois, say that it has caused 
or less trouble in the elevators of that place for at least ten 
