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The Sugar Maple Borer. (Country Gentleman, for August 8, 1895, Ix, 

 p. 583,0. 2 — 14 cm.) 



Insects injuring sugar maples and a linden tree are probably the 

 maple-tree borer, Glycobiusus \Plagioiiotus\ speciosiis, and ants in the 

 latter. A preventive of attack by the former is a coating of soapsuds 

 and carbolic acid to protect from the egg deposit; the remedy is 

 cutting out as stated. The ants in a cavity of the linden may be 

 killed by injecting gasoline. 



New Scale Insect. (Country Gentleman, for August 8, 1895, Ix, p. 585, 

 c. 2 — 4 cm.) 



The scale from Loudenville, N. Y., noticed on page 425 of this vol- 

 ume of the C.-G., as probably an undetermined species oi Eriococciis, 

 proves, on reception of mature forms of the same on the Camperdovvn 

 elm sent from the same locality, to be Gossyparia ulmi, which has the 

 present year occurred in several places in Albany. 



The Harlequin Cabbage Bug. (Country Gentleman, for August 15, 1895, 

 Ix, p. 599, c. 2 — 17 cm.) 



An insect reported from Forestville, Md., as having nearly ruined a 

 crop of nearly fifteen thousand cabbages, is identified as Murgantia his- 

 trionica. It is steadily extending northward, and has appeared in New 

 Jersey [and on Long Island, N. Y.]. Of the remedies named the best 

 is believed to be — -drawing the first brood in the spring to rows of 

 mustard and killing them there with kerosene. 



The Carpet Beetle. (Country Gentleman, for August 15, 1895, Ix, p. 



599, c. 3 — 32 cm.) 



The impropriety of calling this beetle {Afifhrenus scrophularicB) 

 the " Buffcilo moth," as in the inquiry of it made from Plymouth, Conn. ; 

 how to destroy the insect and guard against reinfestation; the food of 

 the beetle; how it may enter or be brought into houses. There is no 

 reason why it should be confounded with the two-spotted lady-bug, as 

 in this inquiry. It is possible to free a house from the pest. 



A Pugnacious Caterpillar. (Gardening, for August 15, 1895, iii, p. 364, 

 c. 3 — 10 cm.) 



A large caterpillar, which was "pugnacious" when taken from its 

 voracious feeding upon a fuchsia, is that of the humming-bird moth, 

 Thy reus Abbotii. Its principal features are given and its peculiar 

 threatening movements when handled or disturbed which serve as a 

 means of protection from its enemies. 



An Insect Attack on Maples. (Gardening, for August 15, 1895, iii, p. 

 364, c. 3— 3 cm.) 



An attack reported from Wisconsin, observed for two years past, 

 causing the center-shoots of cut-leaved maples to fall over and wither, 



