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deprived of sight, the peculiar odor arising from the thousands of larvae 
gave ample evidence of their presence, and the abundance of the cater- 
pillars called to mind, forcibly, the numerous fields swarming with army 
worms in 1896. At Albany, only 17 miles distant, there was no sign of 
injury to the soft maples. A search at that time was not rewarded by a 
single caterpillar. As far west as Herkimer, on the Mohawk river, on 
the Raquette river in St Lawrence county, and in Schoharie county, 
many soft maples were defoliated. In some cases this was probably the 
work of Xylina larvae, though the forest tent caterpillar, C/szocampa adis- 
stria Hiibn., was abundant and may have caused the mischief. In Mas- 
sachusetts a green larva was quite destructive to soft maples, as stated by 
Mr R. H. Cooley. This depredator may be the same species that 
proved so destructive in New York. Ina letter referring the larvae to 
Xylina, Dr Dyar states that in 1897 they were quite common on 
maples at Bellport, L. I., but less abundant, though plenty, the present 
season. 
Comparatively unknown. An examination of the literature relat- 
ing to this insect shows that it is comparatively unknown to economic 
entomology, specially as a defoliator of maple or other trees, though 
Dr Riley, in his 3d report on the insects of Missouri, states that for 
several years he had known the larvae to be common on apple, poplar, 
hickory and some other trees, the leaves of which they devour. This 
species, in conjunction with Xy/ina /aticinerea Grote and X. groéei Riley, 
was reported in 1896 by Prof. Slingerland of the Cornell agricultural 
experiment station, as quite ii jurious to fruits in the state, more speci- 
ally in the western part. Extensive ivjuries to apples in Orleans 
county, N. Y., were also reported to Dr Howard the same year. Pre- 
vious to that, there had been but one record of injuries in New York 
by this species and that was in 1877. In other states there have been, 
a few instances of these insects attacking fruits. In 1870, Dr Riley 
received several complaints of injury by the larvae of this insect to 
peaches and apples. In 1888, it was somewhat injurious to apples 
and a bulletin by Prof. F. H. Hillman, of the Nevada agricultural ex- 
periment station, records serious injuries in 1890 to roses by the same 
Insect, 
Description. The larvae of this species are stout, smooth, light 
green, cutworin-like caterpillars measuring from 1 to 15 inches in length 
when full grown. The head is pale yeilowish green. ‘There is a rather 
broad yellowish white or white dorsal stripe alony the body, a narrower 
white sub-dorsal stripe, a broken, faint lateral stripe of the same color 
and an irregular white stigmatal stripe. The tubercles are rather large 
