062 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Insecticide soaps, G, L. Marlatt (pp. 38-41). — Some 18 soaps were 

 tested to learn whether when dissolved at the rate of 2 gal. water to 

 1 lb. soap they would remain liquid. Nine remained liquid even when 

 placed in refrigerators at a low temperature, while the rest remained 

 solid eveu at summer temperatures. The percentage of water contained 

 in soaps was found to have nothing to do with their remaining liquid. 

 It was also learned that the kind of lye employed is immaterial. Fish 

 oil or other oily soaps are thought best. 



Scale insects and their enemies in California, J. B. Smith (pp. 40-48). — 

 An abstract of the author's report in the Annual Report of the New 

 Jersey Experiment Station for 1896. 



Notes on some of the insects of the year in the State of New York; J. A. 

 Lintner (pp. 54-61). — A somewhat unusual absence of the attacks of 

 several common pests is uoted. Some of the insects mentioned are 

 Vanessa atalanta, Leucania unipuncta, Anisopteryx vernata, Gaccccia 

 rosaceana, Nolophana malana, Euphoria inda, Elaphidion rillosum, E. 

 parallelum, Crioceris asparagi, Macrobasis unieolor, Aspidiotus perniei- 

 osus, Kermes galliformis, and Gossyparia ulmi. 



Entomological notes from Maryland, W. G. Johnson (pp. 63-06). — The 

 nursery stock law of Maryland is discussed. The recognized impossi- 

 bility for even the expert to be certain that scales have been extermi- 

 nated impels the author to suggest that a certificate should be required 

 from nurserymen stating that their stock has never been infected or 

 subject to infection and that they will assume all responsibility should 

 their belief prove unfounded. 



The following insects are noted: Crioceris asparagi, the potato stalk 

 weevil (Trichobaris trinotata), Doryphora 10-lineata, Epicauta cinerea, 

 the strawberry weevil (Anihonomus signatus), the plum curculio (Cono- 

 trachelus nenuphar), codling moth (Carpocapsa pomonella), fruit bark 

 beetle (Scolytus rugulosus), European elm leaf beetle (Galerucella lute- 

 ola), and a locust leaf beetle (Odontota dorsalis). 



Insects of the year in Ohio, F. M. Webster (pp. 60-71). — This was 

 reprinted in the author's annual report (E. S. 1'., 8, p. 998). In the dis- 

 cussion that followed a probably new apple trypeta and a possibly new 

 bagworm were noted, and the injurious effect of surrounding trees 

 with cotton bands saturated with oil brought out. 



Some notes on observations in West Virginia on farm, garden, and 

 fruit insects, A. />. Hopkins (pp. 71-74).— The 5 localities in the State 

 where the San Jose scale occurs are mentioned and the following 

 insects noted: The scurfy bark louse (Chionaspis furfurus), the rose 

 scale, the plum scale, webworm, the harlequin cabbage bug, blister 

 beetle [Epicauta pennsylvanica), and a clover seed pest (Brnchophagus 

 (Eurytoma) funebris) formerly thought to be parasitic on the clover 

 midge (Cecidomyia leguminicola), and bumblebees. 



Notes on new and old scale insects, W. G. Johnson, (pp. 75-78). — The 

 insects noted are the cherry scale (Aspidiotus forbesi), A. new, A. ulmi, 





