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Uiocerus albicornis. (Country gentleman. Sep. 9, 1897. 62:707,00!. 



I, 10 cm) 



This saw-fly was received from Carthage, N. Y., where it had been 

 taken while ovipositing in newly sawn spruce lumber. Its principal 

 features are given together with the manner of oviposition. 



[See pages 338-40 of this report.] 



Plague of flies. (Country gentleman. Oct. 14, 1897. 62:806,807, 



col. 4, 15 cm) 



A dwelling house in Peekskill, N. Y., is infested with ' house flies,' 

 although the stable is 1,500 feet distant, and ' armies ' have been killed by 

 fly-paper and traps. Recommendation is made of screens for windows 

 and doors and trapping the few that would evade them. Possibly the 

 fly may be the ' cluster-fly,' PoUenia rudis^ which in certain localities has 

 the habit of entering houses in the autumn for hibernation. Persian 

 insect powder is most eftectual for these. 



Pine borer. (Country gentleman. Nov. 4, 1897. 62 : 867, col. 2- 

 3, 4 cm) 



The operations of ' a large white grub ' found in exuded masses of 

 pitch on the lower limbs of a Scotch pine and causing the death of 

 the foliage, are described, but without examples of the grubs the 

 species can not be named. Its method of running its burrows, as 

 given, and its living within the pitch, are quite interesting. 



Pine borer. (Country gentleman. Nov. 11, 1897. 62 : 887,00). i, 1 1 cm) 



From examples received, the caterpillars boring pines are identified 

 as the larvae of Harmonia pini Kellicott, an insect closely related to 

 the peach borer. It was described in 1881, and its operations in three 

 counties of this state were observed by Dr Kellicott. A brief account 

 of its life-history is given and comment made upon its peculiar boring 

 habits. The question is raised whether the insect attacks only sickly 

 trees. 



Fall canker worm and its eggs. (Country gentleman. Dec. 16, 1897. 

 62 : 986, c(il. 2-3, 29 cm) 



A cluster of eggs on an apple-twig from Newton, Mass , submitted 

 Nov. 27 for name and information respecting them are those of the 

 fall canker-worm, Anisoftayx poineiayia Harris. The eggs and the 

 caterpillars are described. The eggs are deposited in November or 

 later in warm days during the winter. They hatch in the spring 

 when the trees begin to i)ut forth their leaves, and are often found 

 associated with the spring canker-worm, Hiiiscpteryx veniata — which 

 they closely resemble. 



Spraying with the arsenites as soon as they are seen, is recommended. 



