232 agriculture; of maine. 



Oct. II. Two cecropia cocoons were received from Morrill 

 F. Luce, Anson. 



Oct. 12. Willard F. Overlock of Razorville sent in a cecro- 

 pia cocoon. 



Oct. 13. From E. L. White, Bowdoinham, a cecropia 

 cocoon. 



Oct. 16. Robert IMcCleary, West Farmington, sent in two 

 cecropia cocoons. 



Oct. 16. A cecropia cocoon and a white-marked tussock 

 moth (Hemerocampa leucostigma) were received 

 from Miss Rena P. Noyes, Wilton. 



Oct. 20. A cecropia cocoon parasitized by dipterous larv-ae 

 (Froiitiua frenchii) was sent in by Miss Mildred 

 Wilkins, Notch. 



Oct. 20. Aliss Ida M. Pierce of Lincolnville sent a cecropia 

 cocoon and some caterpillars of Datana intiger- 

 rima. 



Oct. 23. Capt. E. E. Philbrook, Portland, reported a small 

 w'ild apple tree infested with woolly aphis 

 {Schizoneura lanigera) on road from Arrowsic 

 to Georgetow^n, in the town of Georgetown. The 

 tree was destroyed. 



Oct. 25. E. C. Aloody, York Milage, sent egg-cluster of a 

 species of spider. 



Oct. 25, Received from Mrs. H. A. Lewis, Portland, cater- 

 pillars of the ''Eight Spotted Forester" (^/3;^ia 

 octoniaculata). 



Kov. 16. Egg-clusters of the forest tent moth (Malacosoma 

 disstria) were sent by John G. Davis of Surry. 



Kov. 19. From John G. Davis of Surry, a brown-tail moth's 

 nest. 



Nov. 19. Received from Miss Emma AL Davis, Crowley's 

 Junction, Lewiston, a cecropia cocoon and a nest 

 of the brown-tail moth (Enproctis chrysorrhoea). 



Nov. 19. Two male moths were received from J. E. Gross, 

 Orland. 



Nov. 22. A cecropia cocoon was sent in by J. G. Davis, Surry. 



Nov. 27. Arthur B. Briggs of Canton sent nest of spider's 



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