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the trunk bored by this insect ; how the egg is inserted ; operations of 

 the larva ; the oak, elm and the sjxamore also attacked ; Glycobiiis spe- 

 ciosus more injurious to maples ; Rhyssa lunator and 7?. atrata associated 

 with the Troncx as parasitic upon it. 



The Spotted Horn-Bug. (Country Gentleman, for August 17, 1882, 

 xlvii, p. 645, c. 2 — 24 cm.) 



A beetle with a very offensive odor, injuring the foliage of ash trees 

 in Perrowville, Va., is the Dynastes Tityiis. The odor of the specimens 

 sent is so intolerable that they cannot be kept within doors. The 

 beetle is described ; the larva feeds upon decaying trees. The insect is 

 rare in Pennsylvania, and is not known to occur in New York. The 

 depredations of the beetle upon the foliage of the various trees which 

 it attacks, may be arrested by showering with Paris green or London 

 purple. 



Mites infesting a Poultry House. (Country Gentleman, for August 17, 

 1882, xlvii, p. 645, c. 2-3 — 13 cm.) 



The species is not recognized — maybe the same that infests the 

 nests of sitting-hens. They may be killed with kerosene in water ap- 

 plied with a syringe or force-pump to every part of the hen-house. If 

 occurring in a close building, fumigation with sulphur would be efficient. 



A New Worm in Apples. (Country Gentleman, for September 21, 

 18S2, xlvii, p. 745, c. 2-3 — 21 cm.) 



A white worm in early apples reducing the interior to pulp while the 

 outside is fair, in Ascutneyville.Vt. ; is not determinable from the brief 

 statement sent; ma)^ perhaps be the Sciari inali ; operations of this 

 species as given b)'- Dr. Fitch ; its larva and imago described. [Is 

 probably Try pet a poitioneUa . ] 



The Black Blister Beetle — Epicauta Pennsylvanica {Z>eGeer). (Country 

 Gentleman, for September 21, 1882, xlvii p. 745, c. 3 — 15 cm.) 



The beetle injures carrots and cabbages in Baltimore, Md., which 

 have not previously been recorded as among its food-plants ; habits of 

 the beetle; for destroying them beat them into a vessel with kerosene 

 and water or dust with pyrethrum, as was successfully done at Ithaca, 

 N. Y., to large numbers defoliating a passion-vine. 



The Hag-Moth Caterpillar. (Country Gentleman, for September 21, 

 1882, xlvii, p. 745, c. 3-4 — 20 cm.) 



The larvee of Phobetron pithecium (Sm.-Abb.), feeding on a crab-apple 

 tree, described ; its cocoon and its appendages; the larva found also on 

 cherry-trees; its power of stinging; unreasonable fear of most cater- 

 pillars. 



A New Apple Insect — Amphidasys cognataria Gucn. (Country Gen- 

 tleman, for October 5, 1882, xlvii, p. 785, c. 2-3 — 34 cm.) 



Injuring apple-trees in Chelsea, Wis.; description of larva; now first 



