. Annual report - Entomological Society of Ontario. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests -- Periodicals; Insects -- Ontario Periodicals. 30 formations and appearances of the midge, and is accompanied by excellent figures of the male and female with enlargements of parts, which will be of great service in its identi- fication. 1 ON THE NEW CAEPET BUG. BY DR. HAGEN, CAMBRIDGE, (The accompanying figure 1 represents this insect in its vari- ous stages : a the larva, b the skin of the larva, c the pupa and d the perfect beetle. This cut appeared in our last '' An- nual Report,"
. Annual report - Entomological Society of Ontario. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests -- Periodicals; Insects -- Ontario Periodicals. 30 formations and appearances of the midge, and is accompanied by excellent figures of the male and female with enlargements of parts, which will be of great service in its identi- fication. 1 ON THE NEW CAEPET BUG. BY DR. HAGEN, CAMBRIDGE, (The accompanying figure 1 represents this insect in its vari- ous stages : a the larva, b the skin of the larva, c the pupa and d the perfect beetle. This cut appeared in our last '' An- nual Report," but as the insect is being rapidly disseminated, we reproduce the figure here, so that all our readers may become fa- mihar with its appearance. ) Perhaps a few additions to Mr. J. A. Lintner's very interesting article will not be out of place. In 1872 the late Mrs. W. P. L. Garrison came to visit the Museum, and told me about an insect destroying the carpets in Buffalo, N. Y., and named there " the Buffalo ; I had not then heard anything about the insect, and Mrs. Garrison, after her departure, was kind enough to send me some living specimens from Buffalo. I bred them here in the Museum, and determined them as Anthremis scrophularice L. The fol- lowing years I had numerous inquiries from Cambridge and Boston in relation to this carpet pest, and I traced about three-fourths of all cases to a large carpet store in Wash- ington St. in Boston, where the carpets were bought, and what ought not to have been done, they were directly laid in the rooms, without beating them before strongly and disinfecting them in some way. Mr. Lintner was unable to find any record of its preying upon carpets or other woollens in the Old World. But there exists enough in the literature. Dr. H. Noerd- linger, in his well-known book, " Die kleinen Feinde der Landwirthschaft," etc., 1855, 8vo., p. 90, states as follows :— " The common flower-beetle, Anthremis scrophul
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