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pushed into the cyanide bottle in an apparently lifeless condition, 
only trying to escape after the cyanide had begun to affect them. 
This species (Serrodes inara Cram.) was only found on apples and 
guavas. Oranges, although ripening nicely in the same orchard, were 
left untouched. A few specimens of three other species, one of which 
attacked oranges, were also observed on apples. 
To determine whether or not the moths could be readily attracted 
to poisoned sweets some tins of jam—strawberry, apricot, and plum— 
were procured and placed in some of the trees. In others the same 
materials were spread on sheets of paper and fastened to the branches 
near the fruit. With one exception not a moth paid any attention to 
the sweets. One opecimen was seen on the edge of the tin of plum 
jam, but disappeared before I could determine whether or not it was 
feeding. 
Unless we succeed in destroying the insect in some other stage of 
development the only way to secure the fruit is to apply netting while 
the moths are abundant. > 
NOTES ON FOUR IMPORTED PESTS. 
By A. H. KirRKLAND, Boston, Mass. 
Up to the present summer Massachusetts has-borne the unenviable 
distinction attaching to the only State harboring the gypsy moth 
(Porthetria dispar Linn). She now enjoys whatever benefit company 
affords misery, for during the present month a colony of the insect 
has been found at Providence, R. I. The infestation in this city is 
scattered over at least 2 square miles in the residential district. The 
first specimens were discovered August 1 by an amateur naturalist, 
Mr. Prescott Newhall, who carried them to Mr. James M. Southwick, 
formerly entomologist to the Rhode Island board of agriculture. Mr. 
Southwick rightly conjectured that they were gypsy moths, but to 
settle the matter beyond doubt, took specimens to the office of the 
Massachusetts board of agriculture, where the writer was able to 
corroborate the identification. 
On August 2 the writer made an examination of the colony and 
found it in the incipient stage, no trees being defoliated. The street 
trees are quite generally infested, and it seems probable that the 
caterpillars have spread from the original centers of infestation by 
dropping on teams and that in this way a large part of the city may 
be infested. 
Few facts are available at the present writing to show how the moth 
found its way to Providence, a distance of at least 35 miles in a direct 
line from the nearest infested point in Massachusetts. The colony 
in question does not show the characteristics of a natural infestation 
slowly spreading from a central point. Instead, there are several 
isolated points where numerous hatched egg clusters occur, none of 
