EXT(^MOLOGY. 905 



tlirough the ])oisoiied layer to the bark. The amount of Paris green 

 used is believed to be immaterial, but it may be stated that 1 oz. to 3 

 or 4 gal. of whitewash will be amply sufilicient. 



Flesh wounds produced by the hairs of the saddle back caterpillars 

 are discussed, and the very good advice given Jiot to rub the aftected 

 part; but, since the poisoning is due to an acid, some alkali like ammo- 

 nia or a strong solution of common washing soda, or even strong brine 

 or a i)reparation known as "Phenol sodique," may be applied. 



As a remedy against the melon plant louse. ))isulphid of carbon is 

 recommended, a small amount being ])laced near the young plant and 

 both covered. A strong whale-oil soap mixture is also recommended. 

 Eelative to the cabbage maggot, the author reconuuends the treatment 

 prescribed in ^"ew York Cornell Station Bulletin 78 (E. S. E., G, jip. 

 911-025). 



Report of the consulting entomologist, G. C. Davis {Michi{/an 8ta. 

 Rpt. ISO'j, pp. 172-17'.)). — The author considers here the chinch bug 

 {Blissus leucopten(s). willow leaf beetle [Lina lap2)onica), climbing cut- 

 worms {j\[amestra suhjuncia), June beetles {Lachnostcrna triMh and L. 

 ft(sca), shot hole peach tree borers ( Mono r thru )n fasciat nm, Jf. mtdi, and 

 Xylehorus fuscatus), blister beetles {Macrohasis nnicolor and Epicauta 

 peiinsylvaniciis), scale insects, Flxsia sim2)Je.v, and locusts. Eelative to 

 the last he states that numerous reports were received from near Mar- 

 quette and Ishpemiug to the effect that locusts had appeared in such 

 numbers that trains were often impeded in their movements by swarms 

 of hoppers on the rails. The greater number of the insects were the 

 common species, Cammda peJlueida, MdanopJus atlantis, M. hirattaUt.s, 

 and M.femur-ri(hru)}). 



Eelative to the chinch bug, it is stated that they have made greater 

 inroads into the State than ever before, and that large numbers of them 

 have been found on the shore of the lake, over which they were i)rob- 

 ably bloM'u by the wind. 



Experiments were made against the climbing cutworm with Eau- 

 penleim and various other forms of bauds, as well as with bran pois- 

 oned with Paris green and sprinkled about the bases of the trees. The 

 latter method resulted in killing in some cases 00 per cent of the 

 insects that were unable to pass over the bands and up the trees. 

 Of all the bauds tried the kind made from tin M-as found most inefficient. 



The borer XyJehorns fiisattHs seems to be described for the first time 

 as affecting orchard fruits, it heretofore having been known as affecting 

 oidy oak and hickory. 



Against the blister beetles the author recommends the use of a spray 

 of kerosene as soon as tlie insects appear. Lettuce affected with riitsia 

 simplex he thinks best treated with hot water at a temi)erature of 130 

 to 100^. 



Report of the entomologist and botanist of the Canada Exper- 

 imental Farms, J. Fi.etcher (Cunatla E.ipll. Farms h'pf. iN/yj, 2>p. 

 16'5-I0(j, Jif/s. 11). — In this re]>ort tliere are mentioned, more or less 



