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two from the ear, and in spite of the fact that the specimens had 
been in press a week before they were forwarded. Mr Taylor 
also stated that these galls, when laid upon the table, jumped around 
more or less as a result of larval activities. The single chamber in 
the gall, according to Mr Taylor, contains a large, white, legless 
larva, its anterior extremity being attached to the inner wall. This 
species has been reported from New York State, though the identity 
of the eastern gall with the Californian deformity originally 
described by Mr Edwards is questioned (see William Beuten: 
mueller, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 1910, 28:125). 
Two-spotted ladybeetle (Adalia bipunctata_ Luinn.). 
This small ladybeetle was extremely abundant on a Norway maple 
at Nassau, which appeared to be only moderately infested with 
Chaitophorus aceris Linn.  Scatterme colonies Jofyibis 
plant louse were to be seen upon most of the lower leaves at least, 
and the grubs of this ladybeetle were commonly found, there being 
on July 7th, two or three partly grown grubs or pupae on most of 
the lower leaves. The injury by the plant louse was so reduced 
that there was practically no dropping of leaves in spite of the 
extremely dry weather of the last three weeks or thereabouts. This 
ladybeetle was also abundant though not quite so evident on apple 
and cherry trees, both of which were somewhat infested by plant 
lice 
This beneficial form was likewise quite abundant June toth at 
Mount Vernon. One sugar maple was seen with seven or eight 
pupal skins or pupae on one leaf. A Norway maple in Washington 
Park, Albany, observed the 11th, had many of these beneficial in- 
sects upon the leaves, one, two or more grubs on individual leaves 
being not uncommon. 
Two-spotted Anomala (Anomala binotata Gyles 
specimen of this southern form, listed as occurring in New Jersey 
and Indiana, was taken in Albany from a box of presumably New 
Jersey strawberries. This species has not been recorded from New 
York State, though it may possibly occur in the extreme southern 
or southwestern section. This record is of interest mainly as an 
illustration of the effect commerce may have upon the distribution 
of insects. 
Mosquito control. The interest in this phase of applied en- 
tomology continues, the shore communities being especially active. 
The village of Rye, as a result of the excessive abundance of salt 
