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of the methods of control for the kafir ant is to handle the ground in 

 such a manner as to hasten the germination of the seed, and since, as 

 you have stated, the nitrobenzene seems to accelerate the germination, 

 I was thinking that, if it would also act as a repellent, it would be an 

 excellent thing with which to treat the kafir seed. 



Mr. William Moore: It acts somewhat as a repellent to insects 

 as insects leave the animal when fumigated. 



Mr. George A. Dean: Does the seed retain the odor for any 

 length of time? 



Mr. William Moore: For quite a long time. Seed treated by 

 fumigation with nitrobenzene will retain a certain amount of the 

 chemical but this will not injure the germination if the grain is in the 

 soil. When a germinator is used the young shoots will be injured by 

 the nitrobenzene which has evaporated into the air of the germinator. 



President Glenn W. Herrick: We will next listen to a paper 

 by Mr. H. A. Gossard. 



THE CLOVER LEAF-TYER (ANCYLIS ANGULIFASCIANA 



ZELLER) 



By H. A. Gossard 



In early April, 1905, my attention was attracted to the ragged, eaten 

 condition of the clover leaves on the Station farm. A great army of 

 small, leaf-tying caterpillars were found to be responsible for the 

 damage. The injury rivaled that inflicted at the same season by the 

 clover leaf weevil, Phytonomus punctatus. A little later a swarm of 

 small tortricid moths appeared in the field, the chrysalid shells being 

 numerously exposed in the trash and among the leaves where the 

 caterpillars had fed. Investigation failed to discover any like degree 

 of damage being inflicted elsewhere, so the insect was not specially 

 followed up at the time, but was kept under observation through 

 several succeeding seasons. I have not since seen it do so much damage 

 as in 1905, but every year it is a somewhat inconspicuous inhabitant 

 of Ohio clover fields, doing more damage than one is likely to suspect. 



Dr. C. H. Fernald confirmed a lucky guess I made as to its identitj', 

 after he had compared my specimens with three of the original speci- 

 mens from which Zeller wrote his description, these having been given 

 to Dr. Fernald by Zeller. With the exception of a brief note by Dr. 

 Fernald on the species, in Psyche, V. 3, and a similar note b}^ the same ■ 

 writer in Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, V. X, there is no literature relating to 

 it, except Zeller's description of the adult published in the Verhand- 

 lungen der k.-k. Zoologisch botanischen Gessellschafft, Vol. XXV, 

 1875, and a few bibliographical references. 



