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 pest.” 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.

♂. Antennæ much longer than half the costal margin of the forewings, nearly three-fourths as long as the body, uniform black, at two-thirds of their length expanding into a slender fusiform club, the last third of which is suddenly bent at a right angle; from this point forwards it is rapidly narrowed, but not very acute, nor curved into a hook. Locklet of hair of medium length and of the usual structure. palpi projecting the full length of the eyes beyond the front, the first joint thickly hair-scaled, the end joint moderately short, conical, almost horizontal.