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Prof. Weed's experiments with various substances as remedies and pre- 

 ventives, of which, excluding the insect from the plants, in manner 

 stated, alone proved effective. But these experiments do not show that 

 other repellants may not be found which will prove satisfactory. Dust- 

 ing with ground bone has been reported successful, as also beans 

 planted with the cucumbers or melons, as described. 



The Woolly-Bear Caterpillar — Pyrrliarctia Isabella. (Country 

 Gentleman, for November 27, 1890, Iv, p. 941, c. 2 — 34 cm.) 



The insect is identified from Moreton Farm, N. Y. ; the habits of the 

 caterpillar are given, as also its description, mode of hibernation, trans- 

 formations, its feeding habits, and reference to its natural enemies. 

 The moth is also described. 



[See pages 225-228 of this Report.] 



Apple-Leaf Bucculatrix. (Country Gentleman, for December 4, 



1890, Iv, p. 962, c. 3 — 8 cm.) 



Small white cocoons on apple-twigs from Ransomville, N. Y., are those 

 of Bucculatrix pomifoliella. Reference to former notices of it in the 

 C. G., and in 1st Rept. Ins. N. Y., 1883. It is rapidly increasing in New 

 York, and should be promptly met by arsenical spraying. 



A Mite Infesting Dwellings. (Ohio Farmer, for April 13, 1889, 

 p. 274 — 42 cm.)* 



To inquiries from Napoleon, O., and Bloomingdale, Mich., of a mite 

 infesting dwellings, reply is made that it is probably a species of 

 Brijobia; its occurrence elsewhere noticed ; habits of the mites; why 

 they enter dwelling-houses ; remedies. 



LPublished, with additions in Sixth Report on the Insects of New York, 

 1890, pp. 62-65 ; pp. 158-161 of 43d St. Mus. Rept.] 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE ENTOMOLOGIST DUKING THE 



YEARS 1878 AND 1879 

 The Hessian Fly. (Country Gentleman, for January 24, 1878, 

 xliii, p. 55, cols. 3, 4 — 24 cm.) 



Gives a general account of Cecidomyia destructor Say, its history, 

 appearance, its life-history, remedies, etc. 



An Aquatic Worm. (Country Gentleman, for January 31, 1878, 



xliii, p. 72, c. 3 — 9 cm.) 



"Animalculae " sent from a well in Winsted, Conn., which could not be 

 killed by lime or salt introduced, can not be identified. They bear a 

 general resemblance to a leech in their motions when gliding over the 

 bottom of the jar: when swimming freely, the anterior portion is 

 shortened and extended laterally to a greater diameter than the 

 connecting part of the body. 



• Omitted from its proper place, in Keport for 1889. 



