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Of a number of cocoons which I gathered for Dr. Fletcher manj were 

 found to be putrid, and I have seen many cocoons, apparently of females, 

 from which the moths had evidently not emerged. 



In view of the preparation of this paper I dqvoted a few hours recently 

 to a necessarily rapid and very cursory examination of the shade trees in 

 some of the principal uptown streets and squares, as well as making inquiries 

 among my entomological friends. I ascertained that on one street a horse- 

 chestnut in a garden had been quite stripped, but that it had leafed out again 

 and had even blossomed a second time. I examined it, and found that it 

 was an old and decrepit tree. In the same garden there is a specimen of 

 what used to be called Negundo Aceroides, but now Acer Negundo, L. (the 

 Ash-leaved Maple), which had also been stripped, but a few yards further 

 up on the opposite side of the street were Horse-chestnuts and Ash-leaved 

 maples which had practically not suffered at all. 



We have very few Horse-chestnuts in Montreal, and practically none on 

 the streets, nearly all the trees set out in the streets being maples and elms. 

 But Acer Negundo, where attacked, seemed to suffer more than any other tree. 

 The examination I made disclosed only a few trees very seriously infested, 

 but very many trees were found which had a few egg masses upon them. 



A few egg masses were found on telegraph poles, and, as I suggested to 

 Dr. Fletcher, if the caterpillars could be induced to eat them they would be 

 the greatest possible blessing to our city. 



It is greatly to be deplored that the Finance Committee voted so inade- 

 quate an amount, as had the full |500.00 been granted a great deal mpre 

 work could have been done, and as the species has only been increasing 

 slowly of recent years, if all the egg masses which could be found were de- 

 stroyed, it would probably be years before any further expense would have 

 to be incurred ; but doing the work in only a half-hearted way will necessi- 

 tate its being done every year if our shade trees are to be protected from 

 damage. 



No depredations by this pest were perceptible in the district surrounding 

 Montreal, and the damage to the shade trees in the city is, doubtless, to be 

 attributed to the greater immunity of the caterpillars from their natural bird 

 and insect enemies. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN NORTH CAROLINA. 

 Bi Franklin Sherman, Jr., Professor of Entomology and Zoology, 



O.A.C., GUELPH. 



North Carolina is a State of approximately the same area as "Old On- 

 tario," approximately the same length, and approximately the same popula- 

 tion, and lies directly south of Old Ontario, Ottawa being almost precisely 

 north of Cape Hatteras, and Windsor north of Murphy, the western-most 

 county seat. At its eastern end the State is some 150 miles broad, across 

 the middle something like 100 miles, and tapers to a dull point at the south- 

 western extremitv. In fact, the State is somewhat slipper-shaped. 



The population is more evenly distributed than in Old Ontario, there 

 being no large region so thinly settled as the northern section of our province, 

 and no large region so thickly settled as the southern section. There are no 

 large cities, Wilmington, the largest, having but 25,000 population, and 

 Raleigh, the capital, having 13,000, almost exactly the size of Guelph. From 

 these facts it is easy to conclude (and rightly) that agriculture is the chief 



