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trees ? There is a constantly increasing demand for apple trees. 

 If we could raise our own there would be no danger of the San 

 Jose scale or the woolly aphis ; these will come in on imported 

 stock. The latter is here already and the former will get here 

 all too soon unless climatic conditions are against it. W<e trust 

 that this may be so but do not dare to relax our vigilance in an 

 endeavor to ferret out its hiding place if it once crosses our bor- 

 der. 



Partial Record of Specimens Sent for Identification. 



Jan. 8. 



Jan. II. 



Jan. 22 



Jan. 26 



Jan. 26 



Jan. 26 



Jan. 26 



Jan. 29 



Jan. 30 



Jan. 30 



Jan. 31 



Feb. 



Feb. 2. 



F. S. Graves of Waterville sent in a cocoon of the 

 cecropia moth (Samia cecropia). 



From C. L. P. Handy of Albion, three egg clusters of 



the white-marked tussock moth {Hemerocavipa 



leucostigma. 

 Two cecropia cocoons were sent by C. H. Seirman of 



North East Harbor. 

 A cluster of white-marked tussock moth eggs was 



received- from W. A. Alexander, Ellsworth. 

 J. E. Bunker, Bar Harbor, sent in a cecropia cocoon. 

 From P. B. Friend of North Sedgwick several 



brown-tail moth nests {Euproctis chrysorrhoea). 

 Some brown-tail moth nests were sent in by Robert 



H. Pottle, Seal Cove. 

 A cluster of white-marked tussock moth eggs was 



sent in by Miss Florence E. Hamblin of Tremont. 

 Received from Mrs. Geo. P. Homer of Bucksport a 



cluster of white-marked tussock moth eggs. 

 A cluster of old tussock moth eggs was received from 



Chas. F. Clark of Castine. 

 The following were sent in by C. H. Seirman of 



North East Harbor : Three fine cecropia cocoons, 



one tussock cocoon, two polephemus cocoons 



(Tele a po lyp h em us). 



G. W. Whitney of North Newburg sent tussock egg 

 cluster and three female tussock moths (Hemero- 

 campa leucostigma). 



E. L. Totman of Ashdale sent several nests of the 

 brown-tail moth. 



