62 FIEST ANNUAL REPOET OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Washing with tobacco, 16 pounds; oil of tar, 3 pints ; soda-ash, 20 

 pounds ; soft-soap, 4 pounds: for sheep (sufficient for a flock of fifty) 

 infested with ticks {Melophayus ovinus). 



Washing with " Sheep Dip," sold by Messrs. Kidder »& Laird, 83 

 John street, New York, agents for James Buchan & Co.'s Carbolic 

 Soaps, etc., for freeing from ticks. 



Anointing with Cresylic Ointment, sold by the above firm, for de- 

 stroying the ''screw-.worm " — very destructive to living animals and 

 occasionally to persons in the Southern and Western States.* 



Anointing with sulphur, lard, and kerosene, on the head and beneath 

 the wings of fowls infested with vermin. 



Suspending a thin muslin bag containing washed sulphur from the 

 top of the cage of canary birds in position that it may be occasionally 

 struck by the birds ; for killing the mites {Dermanyssus avium) that 

 infest caged birds. 



Washing infested places with corrosive sublimate dissolved in alcohol 

 (one-half ounce to one pint), for destroying bed-bugs {Acanthia lec- 

 tularia). 



Attracting to a paste of molasses and red-lead; for poisoning the 

 cockroach {Stylopyga orientalis) and the Croton-bug {Eciobia Ger- 

 manica). 



Attracting to a mixture of molasses and London purple ; for destroy- 

 ing the large black ant {Formica Pennsylvanica), which occasionally 

 infests dwellings-! 



Attracting to a sponge saturated with sweetened water, the little red 

 ant, and when well filled, dropping in boiling water.J If very abun- 

 dant, repellants are preferable (see page 65). 



Attracting to a lighted candle in a basin of water on the floor of an 

 infested room, at night, for fleas {Pulex irritans). 



Trapping in a glass of soap-suds covered by a piece of card-board with 

 a small central opening and covered within by molasses, honey or other 

 sweets; for house-flies. 



*The fly, which is believed to be a species of Lticilia, deposits its larvae on blood or 

 bloody living flesh, and in seasons of great abundance, also on meat exposed in markets. 

 See American Ento7>iolo(jist, iii, 1880, pp. 21, 203, 275, 276. 



+A house infested by this insect was entirely relieved from its presence in a single night 

 by removing all food from the pantry to which the ants were accustomed to resort, and 

 placing in it a saucer of maple syrup in which veas thoroughly mixed a teaspoonf ul of Lon- 

 don purple. The saucer, for hours, was blackened with the congregated ants, and the fol- 

 lowing day, their dead bodies were thickly strewn along their trail. Not an ant was there, 

 after seen in the house {Country Gentleman, for June 22, 1882, p. 501, col. 4). 



JThis species, which has become so great a pest in many localities, is known, according 

 to our best authorities, as Monomorium Pharaonis. It is the Myrviica molesta of Say. It 

 is a cosmopolitan — is found everywhere in Europe, and has no doubt been very generally 

 distributed through commerce. 



