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Spraying with kerosene. — A safer way and just as effectual as poisoning 

 strips with Paris green, would be found in spraying a strip with kerosene or 

 a strong kerosene emulsion ; but repeated applications — as many possibly 

 as six in a day might be required to keep the traveling army in check. 



Draggifig the rope This method has been recommended in former 



years, but its efficacy may be questioned. It is simply drawing a long 

 rope, held by a man at each end, over the infested field. The grass or grain 

 bows under the weight of the rope and, as it springs back, the caterpillars 

 drop to the ground where they remain for some time. It would need 

 frequent repetition and would prove effective only when the field is not 

 badly infested. 



As means of protection from the ravages of this destructive pest, a 

 number of methods have been named from which selection may be made 

 of those which seem the most practicable for use in the localities or fields 

 invaded. It not infrequently occurs that a remedy for some insect 

 depredation which fully accomplishes its purpose under certain soil and 

 other conditions, will in places where the conditions are of a markedly 

 different character, prove to be of no value whatever. 



Steganoptycha Claypoliana (Riley). 



A New Maple- Tree Insect. 

 (Ord. Lepidoptera : Fam. Tortricid/E.) 



Riley: in Amer. Nat., xv, 1881, pp. 1009-1010 (compared Xo Froteo- 

 teras (Esculana); in id., xvi, 1882, pp. 913-914 (the name of 

 Proteoteras Claypoliana proposed) ; the same in Scien. Amer., 

 Siippl., No. 363, Dec. 16, 1882, p. 5797; in Amer. Nat., xvii, 

 1883, p. 978 (compared with Proteoteras cESCula/ia, and referred 

 to .Steganoptycha); reprint of same in Papilio, iii, 1883, p. 191. 



Claypole: in Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. for 1881, 1882, pp, 269-270 

 (abstract of life-history ; erroneously referred to Sericoris instru- 

 tana); in Psyche, iii, 1882, pp. 364-367 (notes on hfe-history). 



Smith: List Lepidopt. Bor. Amer., 1891, p. 93, No. 4976. 



Lintner: in Country Gendeman, Ix, 1895, pp. 484-485 (recorded on 

 maple, life-history); nth Rept. Ins. N. Y., 1896, pp. 278, 285 

 (abstract of preceding, mention). 



The interesting insect named above is very unobtrusive in its 

 habits, if one may judge from the few notices that have appeared of it. 

 There is no record of its having been observed in the field by more than 



