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It appears as the result of these experiments that there are several 

 preparations that will serve both as disinfectants and larvicides even 

 when hig-hl}' diluted. In almost every city and town there are foul or 

 imperfect gutters where water lies, and sewer or other catch-basins, 

 always containing water and only flushed by occasional heavy rains. 

 These could be treated b}^ the locjil boards of health in their ordinary 

 process at very small expense. So rain pools in vacant lots could be 

 temporaril}^ made harndess until the owner had been compelled to 

 either fill or drain them. Judiciously used, even a barrel of such 

 material as " Puraline " would keep a large area clear of breeding 

 places, while if an equal amount of Phinotas oil were added and used 

 where it could be safely done, the area could be much more than 

 doubled. Cesspools would stand the same sort of treatment, but 

 cisterns and water barrels could not receive anything that might 

 render them dangerous to life or health. But these can be reached in 

 an entirely difierent and equally efl^ective way, as is elsewhere shown. 



DISTRIBUTION OF THE SALT MARSH MOSftTJITO IN NEW JERSEY. 



By J. B. Smith, Neio Brunswick, N. J. 

 [Withdrawn for ijublication elsewhere.] 



THE PERIODICAL CICADA {C kxida se^tendec/bn lj\m\). 

 By .T. B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J. 

 [Witlidrawii for pnl)lication elsewhere.] 



VERNACULAR NAMES OF INSECTS. 



By Edwin W. Doran, Oiwiipaign, III. 



The subject of vernacular names of insects has been discussed briefly 

 before this body on two former occasions, but otherwise scant atten- 

 tion has been given it and the discussions mentioned seem to have 

 been barren of direct results. In 1897 Prof. C. P. Gillette presented 

 a paper before this association on vernacular names and included in 

 his paper a list of about fifty species written in accordance with his 

 views. At the next meeting of the association the writer presented a 

 brief discussion of the matter and suggested certain corrections in 

 Professor Gillette's list. 



I know of nothing else which has been published on the subject 

 except an article which 1 published in Entomological News for Novem- 

 ber, 1902. The matter seems worth}^ of further consideration. Every 



