. Annual report of the Trustees of the State Museum of Natural History for the year ... Science; Museums. Report of the State Entomologist. 209 stock. Can you, without seeing the bug, suggest what it probably is, and a remedy? If so you Avill confer a favor on the writer as well as the subscribers of "Boots and ; Dermestes vulpinus as a Iieather-beetle. To the above, reply was made to the following effect: The depredator is probably the Dermestes vul- pinuH, or the leather-beetle. It has for some time been known to be injurious to skins and hides, and has also been found abunda
. Annual report of the Trustees of the State Museum of Natural History for the year ... Science; Museums. Report of the State Entomologist. 209 stock. Can you, without seeing the bug, suggest what it probably is, and a remedy? If so you Avill confer a favor on the writer as well as the subscribers of "Boots and ; Dermestes vulpinus as a Iieather-beetle. To the above, reply was made to the following effect: The depredator is probably the Dermestes vul- pinuH, or the leather-beetle. It has for some time been known to be injurious to skins and hides, and has also been found abundantly about some bane-boiling works in Eng- land. Two years ago, it was brought to the notice of Prof. Riley (see his report, in that of the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture, for the year 1885, pp. 258-264 [from which the accompany- ing illustrations have been obtained], as occurring in a. Fig. 36.—The Leather-beetle, Deemestks tul- piNUs: a, e^g, and larva; h, pnpa; k, beetle; d, a denuded middle joint of the larva to show spines, etc.; i, ventral view of tip of abdomen of male beetle; e, head of larva; /, maxilla and palpus of same; {/, labium with palpi—enlarged. number of wholesale boot and shoe houses in St. Louis, where boxes of shoes that had been jDacked for some time, were swarming with the insect in the different stages of its development. It was observed that the soles and heels of boots and shoes were more liable to be injured than the uppers, probably resulting from the oily dressing used in the latter. The operations of the larva are described as boring round and smooth holes through the leather in every direction, very often entering the shoe at the joining of the heel with the sole, or at any point in the crevice between the upper and the sole, where the larva could find the purchase for its boring. The larva sometimes transforms to the pupa state within the leather, but it usually leaves it for a crack in the box containing the shoes, or in the
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