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robinice, but is separable by its longer and stouter antennae and body 

 behind tapering to a blunt point. The specimens received are in 

 the pupal stage, showing in transparency, the yellow markings of the 

 wing-covers. The larva is not as injurious to hickories as the locust- 

 borer to locusts. 



Apple-Leaf Bucculatrix. (Country Gentleman, for March i6, 1882, 

 xlvii, p. 207, c. I — 5 cm.) 



Small white-ribbed cocoons upon apple-tree bark, sent from Bergen 

 county, N. J., are identified as those of Bucculatrix poinzfoh'cHa Clem- 

 ens. The cocoons show a parasitic attack. 



Insects that Injure Trees. (Country Gentleman, for April 20, 1882, 

 xlvii, p. 313, c. 1-2 — 46 cm,) 



Notice of Dr. Packard's "Insects Injurious to Forest and Shade 

 Trees," being Bulletin No. 7 of the U. S. Entomological Commission. 

 The volume presents a summary of what is known of insect injuries 

 to our more useful trees. The notice remarks upon the importance of 

 the preservation of our forests and attention given in Europe to the 

 subject, and refers to the number of species of insects attacking trees 

 in Europe and in the United States; it complains of the inferior char- 

 acter of some of the illustrations ; mentions a revised edition contem- 

 plated. 



The White Grub — Lachnosterna fusca {Fro/iL). (Country Gentleman, 

 for April 27, 1882, xlvii, p. 333, c. 2-3 — 34 cm.) 



Belief expressed that the grubs destroying the roots of grass, will not 

 injure potatoes on the same ground the following year. Methods 

 given for their destruction, as shaking the beetles from the trees on 

 which they congregate, rooting out the grubs by hogs, plowing up and 

 exposing to birds, application of salt and other materials to render the 

 food unpalatable to the grubs. 



Mites in Timothy Fields. (Country Gentleman, for May 18, 1882, 

 xlvii, p. 395, c. 1-2 — 19 cm.) 



The little attention paid to the study of the Acarina in this country : 

 reference to a few common species. This species pronounced by Dr. 

 Hao-en, of Cambridge, to be Trombidiwii bicolor Hermann, or very 

 near to it. It is black with red legs — was observed April 28th at Con- 

 cordville. Pa., on no other grass but timothy. 



The Spring Canker-Worm — Anisopteryx vernata. (Country Gentle- 

 man, for May 18, 1882, xlvii, p. 393, c. 1-3 — 67 cm.) 



Its distribution is from Maine to Texas, but it is usually quite local ; 

 efficiency of birds in destroying it ; ascent of the tree trunks by the 

 wingless moths should be prevented , may be done by bands of tarred 

 cloth; Dr. Le Baron's band of rope with tin nailed upon it, and how it 



