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rode on serenely past tliem without pause or acknowledgment, and, as one un- 

 accustomed to be shouted after by any who wished to speak to him, turned a deaf 

 ear to all calls to come back, until signs made by people in front left no excuse for 

 going further. Then turning round and ambling up to the Adrainistrateur, he 

 began : " Monsieur, this is very amusing. The Arabs found me in the woods. I 

 have no papers. They knew no French ; I speak no Arabic ; explanation was 

 impossible. I am given to understand that under the circumstances I had to appear 

 before you, and from what I can gather they have acted according to the regulations." 

 Administrateur : "You are English, are you not.f Why have you not a Permis de 

 circulation dans Iss Douars?; you have a Consul at Bone." Prisoner: "Never 

 heard of such a thing, and naturally, therefore, never applied for one. Nowhere in 

 Algeria before have I found papers necessary." Admin. : " Near the Tunisian 

 frontier precautions not elsewhere i-equired have to be taken, on account of robbers 

 and other bad subjects ready for any violence ; and without a Permis it cannot be 

 known who you are. Were you properly treated ? What is your occupation ? " 

 Prisoner : " I have nothing to complain of, and amuse myself with herborizations 

 and entomology" (bottle of dragon-flies produced for inspection). Prompt discharge 

 of prisoner, who returned to the Douar, and dined after all at Le Tarf. And so was 

 lost a fine opportunity of sampling Pediculi that night in an Algerian lock-up. — 

 A. E. Eaton, Le Tarf, Algeria : June 2hth, 1896. 



[Our friend's amusing adventure will probably induce other English Entomo- 

 logists visiting the same district to obtain the requisite "permis" before doing so. — 



Eds.] 



The Gypsy Moth, Poethesia dispae, L.: aEcport of the -work of destroying 

 the Insect in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, together with an account of its 

 history, both in Massachusetts and Europe : by Edwaed H. Fobbush and Chaeles 

 H. Feenald, A.m., Ph.D. 8vo, pp. 495, and 100 pp. of Appendices and Index. 

 Published under the direction of the State Board of Agriculture, Boston, 1896. 



It is not often possible to even approximately determine the date of introduction 

 of a foreign injurious insect. In this case, however, there seems no reason to doubt 

 that the insect was introduced into Massachusetts in 1868 or 1869 by M. Leopold 

 Trouvelot, a French naturalist, astronomer, and artist, then residing temporarily in 

 the States. Some, or all (probably larvje), unfortunately escaped, and M. Trouvelot, 

 knowing the destructive powers of the insect at home, gave due notice of the fact 

 to the authorities, yet probably little dreaming of the disastrous results that followed. 

 In the first ten years little was noticed of the insect ; then it began to cause great 

 damage in the more immediate vicinity of its introduction, increasing and spreading 

 rapidly, until in 1890 a Bill passed the House of Representatives, providing against 

 its depredations, and a Commission was appointed to consider the whole subject 

 (see Appendix, pp. i — xivi), one outcome of which is the bulky volume now before 

 us. The first part, to p. 354, is by Mr. Forbush,the Field Director, and is especially 

 practical; the second part, by Prof. Fernald, is both scientific and practical; the 



