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Sticky Bands in France: In No. 27 of the current volume of the "Comptes Rendus 

 des Stances de I'Academie d'Agriculture de France," M. Paillot, Director of the 

 Southeast Entomological Station of France, presents an interesting paper on the 

 sticky bands which are being used against the Cheimalohia. He experimented in 

 former years successfully with American tanglefoot, but on account of the expense 

 of the latter, he has recently been experimenting. He finds that the mixture pre- 

 pared by Collins and Hood of the Gipsy Moth laboratory at Melrose Highlands is 

 very effective, preserving its sticky quality for a very long time, and at the same time 

 is much cheaper than the tanglefoot. He endeavored to have the same mixture pre- 

 pared by a firm in Lyon, but without perfect success, the mixture drying too rapidly 

 in the open air. He hopes to be able to prepare a mixture comparable to the ColUns 

 and Hood mixture, as described in Bulletin 899 of the Bureau of Entomology, since 

 the substances of which it is composed are readily obtainable in France. He pro- 

 poses to use it, not only against the Cheimatobia, but against the gipsy moth whenever 

 outbreaks of the latter species occur in France. 



L. O. H. 



Outbreak of the Birch Skeletonizer: The birch skeletonizer, Bucculatrix cana- 

 densisella Chambers, is abundant in Connecticut this season and acres of Betula 

 poptilifolia in New Haven County were brown in September. Other species of 

 birch are attacked, but not skeletonized or injured to the same extent. W. E. B. 



Spread of Gipsy Moth in Connecticut: Last winter's scouting revealed an ex- 

 tensive spread of the gipsy moth in Connecticut, apparently due to wind-spread in 

 the spring of 1921 and in some cases old egg- masses were found showing that the 

 wind-spread occurred in 1920. Most of the infestations are small and scattered, 

 but it is now necessary to spread our control work over more than three times the 

 area covered heretofore, which will be difficult without a larger appropriation. Wind- 

 ham, Tolland and Hartford Counties are now generally infested, all of New London 

 County except two towns in the southwest corner, the northern part of Middlesex 

 County, northern part of Litchfield County along the Massachusetts border to the 

 New York vState line, and two towns in the northern part of New Haven County are 

 scatteringly infested. Fairfield County has not yet been found infested. Of the 

 169 towns in the State, 95 are now covered by State and Federal quarantine instead 

 of 26 a year ago. W. E. B. 



Apple and Thorn Skeletonizer: The apple and thorn skeletonizer, Hemerophila 

 pariana Clerck, was first found in Greenwich and Stamford, Connecticut, late in the 

 fall of 1920, having been discovered in Westchester County, N. Y., two or three years 

 prior to that date, where it had evidently been introduced in some way from Europe. 

 On June 24, 1921, many unsprayed apple trees in Greenwich and Stamford, Conn., 

 were brown and adults were found resting on the leaves and on daisies in the fields. 

 Before the season ended, this insect was received at my office from many points in 

 Connecticut and was observed at other places by members of che department staff, 

 showing that it had already become distributed nearly all over the State. This pest 

 has attracted a good deal of attention during the present season, and now (September 

 15) unsprayed apple orchards in New Haven County and the southern part of Hart- 

 ford County look as if a fire had gone through them. On the other hand, the attack 

 of this insect has been less severe in Greenwich and Stamford than in 1921. The 

 injury to sprayed orchards is slight. W. E. B. 



