REPORT OF state; entomologist. 221 



Feb. 2. An egg cluster of the tussock moth was received 

 from T. J. Lowell of East Denmark. 



Feb. 26. A. L. McCorrison, Searsmont, sent some brown-tail 

 moth nests and several egg clusters of the tussock 

 moth. 



Feb. 2"/. An egg cluster of the tussock moth was sent in by 

 Mrs. J. F. Knowlton of Ellsworth. 



Feb. 27. From Philip S. Melcher of Portland, a cluster of 

 white-marked tussock moth eggs and a specimen 

 of the oyster-shell scale {Lepidosaphes uhmi). 



Feb. 28. John F. Lear, V. S., Lamoine, sent egg clusters of 

 both the old and the white-marked tussock moths 

 (Notolophus antiqua), {Hemerocampa leucostig- 

 ma). 



Mar. I. Received from D. H. Knowlton of Farmington ter- 

 minal shoots of the apple, infested with a gall fly. 



Mar. 10. J. L. Small of Stonington sent a nest of the brown- 

 tail moth. 



Mar. 10. A polyphemus moth cocoon was sent in by C. B. Syl- 

 vester of Hudson. 



Mar. 12. F. P. Bailey of Harpswell sent eggs of white-marked 

 tussock moth. 



Mar. 14. An egg cluster of the tussock moth was received 

 from Wilder C. Snell of Oakland. 



Mar. 20. L. W. Seavey of Long Cove sent a brown-tail moth's 

 nest. 



Mar. 25. Received from Carrie Fuller of Rockport an egg 

 cluster of the tussock moth. 



Mar. 28. Alonzo Butler, Union, sent in a nest of the brown- 

 tail moth. 



Mar. 29. A brown-tail moth nest from J. E. White, Columbia. 



Mar. 30. From E. L. White of Bowdoinham a cecropia moth 

 and cocoon. 



April 3. C. E. Grendell, South Penobscot, sent three egg 

 clusters of the white-marked tussock moth. 



April 5. One cecropia cocoon {Samia cecropia) and two egg 

 clusters of the tussock moth were received from 

 W. L. Withers, Oakland. 



April 5. A. T. Gillis of North Bluehill sent an egg cluster of 

 the tussock. 



