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This has been done already in some places. At Bridgeport, Conn., 

 Mr. W. S. Billiard has engaged in such work for the past few years. The 

 firm of H. L. Frost & Co., 21 South Market St., Boston, Mass., is making 

 a speciality of all kinds of spraying and of pruning trees. The members 

 of this firm are graduates of the Massachusetts Agricultural College and 

 deserve encouragement in this comparatively new line of work. Where 

 no provision has been made for spraying, or where it has been carelessly 

 done, the larvte and pup^e that may be found on the trunk and at the 

 base of the tree should be destroyed with hot water or kerosene emulsion. 

 Many of the insects can be killed in this manner, but only after they 

 have ceased feeding. This measure simply reduces the number of the 

 insects of later broods. It may be made more effective by scraping the 

 rough outer bark from the lower limbs and the trunk of the tree so that a 

 larger proportion would be compelled to descend to the ground in search 

 of a hiding place while transforming instead of pupating within the 

 crevices of the bark. A rude inclosure or box around the base of the 

 tree would also be of service, as it would keep the larvae from straying 

 where they could not be so easily reached and killed. 



Odontota dorsalis Thunb. 

 (Ord. CoLEOPTERA : Fam. Chkvsomeliix«. 

 dorsalis Thunberg: Getting. Gel. Ang., 1805, p. 282. 



Chrysomela scutellaris Olivier: Ent. Hist. Nat.— Coleopt., vi, 1808, 



p. 771, PI. 2, fig. 21. 

 Htspa siituralis Harris: in Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., i, 1835, p. 147 



(pupa [Fig. 2] and imago described); Ins. Inj. Veg., 3rd Edit., 



1862, p. 121 (description). 

 AnopUtis scutellaris. Fitch: 5th Rept. Ins N. Y., 1859, p. 54 (brief 



notice of larva and imago); the same in Trans. N. Y. State 



Agricul. Soc for 1858, xviii. 1859,1x834; in Country Gent., 



xxvi, 1865, p. 190 (ravages on Long Island). 

 Hispa suturalis. Packard: Guide Study Ins., 1869, p. 504 (mention). 

 Odontota scutellaris. Riley: in Amer. Entomol., iii, 1880, p. 151 (on 



Kobmia and Quercus alba). 

 AnopUtis Scutellaria. Lintner: ist Rept. Ins. N. Y., 1882, p. 320, 



(cites Fitch). 

 Odontota dorsalis. Horn: in Trans. Amer. Entomolog. Soc, x, 1883, 



pp. 296, 303 (description and synonymy). 

 Odontota scutellaris. Dimmock: in Kingsley's Stand. Nat. Hist., 1884, 



p. 315 (not confined to the locust). 

 Odontota scutellaris. Howard : Bull. 5 Divis. Entomol., U. S. 



Dept. Agricul., 1885, p. 7 (parasite from pupa described). 

 Odontota suturalis. Howard : in Entomolog. Amer., i, 1885, p. 117 (two 



parasites described). 



