88 BULLETIN NO. 4, DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
ANOTHER EAST INDIAN CoTTON WoRM REMEDY. 
With regard to sending to your Department specimens of insects 
which injure the cotton crop in Burma, I regret I cannot do it at once, 
as most of the cotton fields in Burma have been left waste for the last 
two or three years, on account of disturbances between the king of 
Burma and Shan chiefs. At such times the cultivators are not safe, 
being every now and then attacked by the enemy and looted, but I will 
keep in mind, and will endeavor as soon as an opportunity is offered to 
procure the specimens of injurious insects which attack the cotton and 
forward the same to you as desired. 
I will send you shortly another remedy for injurious insects; it is the 
bark of a tree that natives soak in a jar of water for twenty-four hours, 
after which the water is sprinkled on the plants. I am told that 
by such process insects are killed, and the smell of the water on the 
plants prevents them going near to the plants any further. I shall send 
the seed also with the bark, that on trial of the experiment, if success- 
ful, you may try the seed for growing the tree.—[C. LUCAS, Rangoon, 
Burma, January 29, 1883. 
POSSIBLE NORTHERN FOOD-PLANT OF ALETIA. 
Referring to mine of 17th ultimo, and in reply to yours of 13th instant, 
J regret to state that the larva unknown described to you as feeding on 
Hibiscus trionum, disappeared during the night of the 23d ultimo, before 
which time I had discovered two simiiar, save a black dorsal line, 
each upon flower spike of Lupinus pilosus. A drawing was sent to the 
Entomological Society of Ontario, and a description. I have to state 
that larve similar in size and color to Figs. 4 and 5 of Plates V and VI, 
page 348, Agricultural Report for 1879, were seen by me in my garden 
at Riverside in August of 1879—supposition, from eggs attached to 
botanical débris obtained near Washington, perhaps leaves and fruit 
of Callirrhoé pedata obtained from back of Mr. Gray’s, 204 Seventh street 
southwest—crawling upon and imbedded in plants of Gnaphalium uligi- 
nosum L. (Marsh Cudweed),a common weed in this district, 7. e., Riverside. 
I sent youa specimen of the plant from my garden.—[ ALFRED H. Moork, 
toronto, Ont., October 19, 1883. 
PARIA ATERRIMA INJURING STRAWBERRIES. 
I sent you some larve of the strawberry crown-borer 1n a potato this 
morning. Ihave a few more now and will send them the same way, ex- 
cept that I will inclose some damp soil with them. I think they do not 
eat now, for I find them in a little cavity in the earth, not far from the 
surface. I have been acquainted with this pest for ten years, and I re- 
