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Dec. I. A cecropia cocoon and a polyphemus cocoon (Telea 

 polyphemus) were sent in by A. L. Richards, New 

 Gloucester. 



Dec. 5. Received from H. W. Moody of Waldoboro a 

 cecropia moth cocoon, a brown-tail moth's nest 

 and an egg-cluster of the white-marked tussock 

 moth. 



Dec. 6. E. AI. Sadler of Brunswick sent from Dorchester, 

 Mass., three cocoons of a new Japanese moth 

 (Cnidocaiiipa flavesccns) lately imported. 

 ■ Dec. 6. F. S. Jackson, South Paris, sent a brown-tail nest. 



Dec. 10. Capt. E. E. Philbrook, Portland, sent twenty-two 

 egg-clusters of the gipsy moth (Porthetria dispar), 

 collected for educational purposes. 



Dec. 10. A cecropia cocoon was sent in by J. E. Ridlon, 

 Bonny Eagle. 



Dec. 12. A cecropia cocoon on pine was received from Thom- 

 as A. Johnston, South Paris. 



Dec. 12. Three alder caterpillars (Apatela dactylina) which 

 had been parasitized by Rhogas iufcrmedius, were 

 sent in by Ross L. Looke, Jonesboro. 



Dec. 13. Frank Lowell, Farmingdale, sent a scale insect on 

 orange tree {Cocc^is hesperidum). 



Dec. 2/. Hiram Kelly Morrell of Gardiner sent m a goldsmith 

 beetle (Cotalpa lanigera) for identification. 



Grange Interest in the Work. 



At the beginning of the year it was thought advisable, on 

 account of the liability of the spread of the brown-tail moth and 

 the advent of the gipsy moth into uninfested sections of the state, 

 to see what could be done to arouse an interest in entomological 

 work among the granges throughout the state. A circular letter, 

 together with instructions for collecting and preserving the dif- 

 ferent insects was sent to the secretary of each gfransfe in the 

 state, the object being to disseminate information so that the 

 members could come to know the dififerent stages in the life his- 

 tories of many of our most destructive insects. In the circular 

 letter it was recommended that each grange appoint a commit- 

 tee of three to have the work in charge ; specimens to be brought 



