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undertaken for the purpose of throwing light on the life history of the 

 cutworm and other night-flying moths. It is found as a rule that male 

 and female moths are attracted to light or sugar in about equal num- 

 bers, and that males fly for a few days or even for as much as a week 

 before the female of the same species. The females are much more 

 readily captured before the deposition of eggs than after. 



Data were also collected on the relative value of different remedies 

 against the codling moth, and it was concluded that bandages employed 

 for the destruction of the larvae may be of great service, while but slight 

 protection is obtained by destroying the fallen infected fruit. 



The author also gives notes on the following insects: Teach twig 

 borer and fruit worm (Anarsia lineatella) ; strawberry leaf roller (Phox- 

 opteris comptana) ; oak carpenter worm (Prionoxistus robinice); green 

 lice (Hyalopterus pruni), which seem to attack American varieties of 

 fruit more than European and did a very considerable amount of dam- 

 age during the year; black lice on plum and cherry; the apple aphis 

 {Aphis mail) ; the elm aphis ( 8chizoneura americana), for which kerosene 

 emulsion in ordinary strength and whale-oil soap in the proportion of 

 1 lb. to 8 gal. were found to be very effectual remedies; cottony maple 

 scale (Pulvinariu innumerabilis), which affected very seriously the soft 

 maples in Denver; harlequin cabbage bug (Murgantia histrionica), 

 which was reported to the experiment station for the first time,specimeus 

 being sent from Kit Carson County, where the insect was said to be 

 doing great harm; and the Mediterranean flour moth (Ephestia 

 Icuehniella). 



An investigation of a case of what appeared to be bee paralysis is 

 also briefly mentioned and attributed to the bees having eaten some 

 fungus parasite of plants. 



From the observations made by several persons it is thought that the 

 first brood of the peach twig borer bores in the spring into tender shoots 

 of peach, plum, apricot, and almond, and that the second brood bores 

 into the fruit of the peach, while the third or fall brood bores into the 

 crowns of strawberry plants. The oak carpenter worm has done con- 

 siderable damage, but the only remedy thought worthy of suggestion 

 is the plugging of the burrows of the insect with wooden plugs as soon 

 as their castings indicate the presence of the worms. 



Report of the entomologist, H. A. Morgan ( Louisiana Stas. Bui. 

 48, 2. ser., pp. 128-159, pis. 5, figs. 18). — The author reviews the legisla- 

 tion of the State relative to insects, and gives accounts of the follow- 

 ing insects: The cotton mite, a new peach insect (Artace punctistriga), 

 the fig borer (Pitychodes trivittatus), the harlequin bug (Murgantia 

 histrionica), the peach and plum leaf sawtty (Caliroa [Seltmdria] obso- 

 letum), pecan caterpillar (Datana integerrima), leaf footed bug (Lepto- 

 glossus phyllopus), a new insect attacking corn (Delphax maidis). An 

 account is given of finding maggots in the human alimentary canal. 

 The insect proved to be Hermetia illicens, which infests lettuce, and it 



