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as to injure the plants. My experiments this season make me feel certain 

 that this will prove a valuable remedy, and if cheaper, it may even replace 

 the explosive bisulphide of carbon in fighting the cabbage maggot and 

 the squash ^gerian. 



About my house at the Michigan. Agricultural College I have planted 

 a little apple orchard of eight trees. The trunks and larger branches of 

 these trees have been thoroughly washed twice each spring, the last week 

 of May and the last week of June, with soft soap. A neighbor but a 

 stone's throw distant set out some fine primates about the same time that 

 I set out my trees. He does not believe in the use of soft soap, practi- 

 cally at least, and his trees are sOrely disfigured and greatly injured by the 

 Saperda Candida and the S. cretata, while my trees are smooth and 

 admired by all. I have some pear trees in the same orchard which were 

 not treated with the soap, one of which has been much injured by the 

 borers. 



This year I used the undiluted carbolic mixture instead of the soft 

 soap. I fully believe this to be an improvement on the soap alone, as in 

 some cases, if but one or even two applications of the soap are made, the 

 effect is not so long continued as to entirely prevent the borers from egg 

 laying. The carbolic acid will tend to extend the period so that I believe 

 two applications will in every case repel the beetles. 



"ON SOME NORTH AMERICAN TINEID^, BY THOMAS, 

 LORD WALSINGHAM, F. Z. S." 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KY. 



The above is the title of a paper received from the author, and pub- 

 lished in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (February 

 15th, 1881), in which his Lordship characterizes three new genera : 

 Phryganeopsis — one species, P. hrunnea; ARiEOLEPiA — one species, 

 subfasciella ; and Euceratia — two species, castella and securella. He 

 also describes as new Calantica poiita, Plutella mterrupta^ P. albidorsella 

 and P. vanella ; Ccrostoma falciferella, C. cervella, C. snblulella, C. denti- 

 fereila, C. canariella and C. friistella ; Depressaria sabulella, D. argillacea, 

 D. ariiicella^ D. khiinathiana, D. posticella^ D. Jiubiferella, D. parilella 



