114 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



cult to find out the right method. I myself have more confidence in the 

 proposed remedy, since it is neither an hypothesis nor a guess-work, but 

 simply the application of true and well-observed facts. I hear the ques- 

 tion — When all this has been known for so long a time, why was it not 

 used long ago ? But is that not true for many, not to say for all, dis- 

 coveries ? Most of them are like the famous Columbus egg. 



OBSERVATIONS ON NEPHOPTERIX ZIMMERMANI. 



BY D. S. KELLICOTT, BUFFALO, N. Y. 



This pine-boring Pyralid was described by Prof. A. R. Grote in a 

 paper read at the Nashville Meeting, 1877, of the American Assoc, for the 

 Adv. of Science, and published in Canadian Entomologist, vol. ix., 161. 

 During the summer and autumn of 1878, and again this year, I have made 

 some observations upon the occurrence, larval habits and parasitic enemies 

 of this moth, and am able to state concerning them some additional facts 

 of interest. 



The moth, it appears, is pretty widely, spread, and it seems rather odd 

 that it should not have been discovered until 1877, having been overlooked 

 by our excellent economic Entomologists. I have met with it in some 

 one of its stages in the following localities : It occurs not uncommonly in 

 both foreign and native pines in and about Buffalo • many of the trees of 

 this species in the Niagara St. Parks have been bored by it. I found it 

 quite abundant in small white pines of the forest at Chehtowaga, Erie 

 Co., N. Y. At this place I found many plants had been dwarfed and 

 ruined by their ravages. It also occurs, to what extent I am unable to 

 say, at Hamburg and Clarence Center, in the same Co. I recently visited 

 a portion of this State, Oswego Co., formerly clad to some considerable 

 extent with white pine, and there are yet standing some virgin forests of 

 this splendid tree. In divers places in that county I found our borer; it 

 is so abundant in one locality, at least, that it proves a grave enemy to 

 the young pines of second growth where the primitive trees have been 

 removed by the lumberman. There is near Hastings Center an " old 

 slash " in which at least one-half of the many such small pines have been 



