. Bulletin - New York State Museum. Science. REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST, 1898 217 known to cause the wall paper in a house to scale off by feeding on the starch paste. In museums they are frequently troublesome on account of their habit of eating away the surface of the labels. In one case coming under my observation at Fort Plain, N. Y., the labels were so badly eaten as to be illegible in a number of instances, and in one or two cases the fragments dropped from the blocks to which they had been tacked. These insects even worked their way into wooden boxes containing microscopic preparation
. Bulletin - New York State Museum. Science. REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST, 1898 217 known to cause the wall paper in a house to scale off by feeding on the starch paste. In museums they are frequently troublesome on account of their habit of eating away the surface of the labels. In one case coming under my observation at Fort Plain, N. Y., the labels were so badly eaten as to be illegible in a number of instances, and in one or two cases the fragments dropped from the blocks to which they had been tacked. These insects even worked their way into wooden boxes containing microscopic preparations and attacked the labels gummed on the glass shps. Another instance of their destructiveness is shown in the accompanying reproduction from a photograph of a senate bill, which had been undisturbed in the office for about 16 years (^S* ^5)' It ^^ most probable the work of Lepisma domestica^ as it has subsequently been taken in the office. Both of these species. Fig. 15 — Work of Lepisma (original). are small and shun the light, running very rapidly to a place of conceal- ment on the slightest alarm. They are slender, silvery gray, wingless insects, belonging to the lowest order, Thysanura. Their long, fragile antennae and delicate anal filaments render it very difficult to capture a specimen unbroken. Lepisma domestica is represented very much en-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York State Museum; New York State Museum. Albany : New York State Education Dept
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