JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGIST* 



OCTOBER, 1911 



The editors will thankfully receive news Items and other matter likely to be of in- 

 terest to subscribers. Papers will be published, so far as possible, in the order of re- 

 ception. All extended contributions, at least, should be in the hands of the editor the 

 first of the month preceding publication. Reprints maj- be obtained at cost. Con- 

 tributors are requested to supply electrotypes for the larger illustrations so far as pos- 

 sible. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged.— Eds. 



It is planned to issue the next number of the Journal December 1st 

 instead of on the 15th as heretofore. This change was made so that 

 the program for the annual meeting, usually published in the last 

 number, will be in the hands of the majority of our readers at least two 

 weeks before the time of the meeting. Furthermore, the mailing of 

 this issue about the 15th is frequently followed by delay incident to 

 the accompanying rush of Christmas mail. Contributors are therefore 

 requested to forward copy to the editor by the 1st of November, though 

 minor notices may be inserted if received by the 11th. We hope the 

 change for this number will meet with general approval. 



The recent circular (No. 27 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture) 

 sent out over the signature of the Secretary of Agriculture is a compre- 

 hensive and moderate statement of the need for an efficient national 

 quarantine law applying to nursery stock and plants or plant products 

 entering into international and interstate commerce. This cii'cular 

 should be widely disseminated and ought to have a most beneficial 

 influence in developing a proper attitude toward such an enactment. 

 A law of this general character would be of inestimable value in 

 the case of sporadic infestations such, for example, as the recently 

 discovered presence of the gipsy moth at Lenox, Mass. The insect 

 was in all probabiUty brought into that locahty -with nursery stock, 

 judging from the evidence available. There is no reason why similar 

 infestations might not occur in other states and in that event it would 

 very probably be in less progressive communities. In some instances 

 at least, authority such as this proposed law gives would be almost 

 necessary for the proper handling of the situation. This is a matter of 

 vital importance to almost every tax payer in the northeastern United 

 States at least, because unless such infestations are handled in a sum- 

 mary manner, it would soon mean an enormous local tax for the 

 control of pests in unfortunate communities here and there. Experi- 

 ence in eastern Massachusetts has shown that such assessments may 



