KEPOKT OF THE ENTOMOLOGIST. d'2b 



The most remarkable example wliich we have seen in tlie Maine ■vroods 

 stood in a wood southwest of Bowdoiu College, but which has since 

 been cut down. Fortunately, shortly before the destruction of the tree, 

 we requested Prof. G. L. Vose, then of Bowdoin College, to make a 

 drawing of the tree. He kindly sent us the accompanying excellent 

 sketch (see Plate IX, Fig. 4), in part reproduced, with the following 

 letter, giving the measurements o:&the tree : 



Bruxswick, Mb., September 5, 1881. 

 I send yon a sketch of tlie tree, not, as you Trill see, in any way as a work of art, as 

 I make no pretense in that line, but as a botanic specimen. Tlie arranjcement of 

 branches is according to nature. I took a point about 150 feet southwest of the tree, 

 so as to separate all of the branches. The height is about 100 feet ; the height of 

 trunk before it begins to branch, 12 feet; circumference at 4 feet abore grouud, 10 feet : 

 at 2 feet above ground, 10 feet 9 inches. The spread of the top is 35 or 40 feet. Looked 

 at sideways the tree is not so symmetrical. The sketch is just as I made it on the 

 ground. I thought I would not work over it at home, as I might change it by so 

 doing. 



Yerv truly, as ever, 



GEO. L. VOSE. 



Fig. 5, Plate IX, is from a photograph of a white pine tree in East 

 Providence, K. I., which is of the same general shape, but a smaller 

 and shorter tree, still growing in a thick wood, its fellows, however, 

 much smaller. The tree is about 70 feet in height, and 32 inches before 

 it branches, the trunk sending out nine branches, the lowermost being 

 about 3 feet from the ground. 



In these two examples we should judge that the terminal shoot only 

 was destroyed by the weevil, while the lateral shoots survived, but grew 

 more vertically than they would have done if the terminal shoot had 

 not been injured, while their size became unnaturally large. 



It is comparatively easy to prevent this deformation of small young 

 trees in lawns and about houses or even on large plantations if the dis- 

 ease is combated in time ; the wilting terminal twig should be examined, 

 and the grubs cut out. If a wash of Paris green were applied or a block 

 of carbolic acid soap securely placed in the crotch the grubs would be 

 destroyed or driven ofi. The time to ax)ply the remedies is at the middle 

 or end of July. 



TTTR SPRUCE EPIZEUXIS. 



{Epizeuxis ccmula Hiibner.) 



While in the Adirondacks, in June, 1884, at Beede's hotel, Keene 

 Flats, 1 beat from the spruce near the hotel two caterpillars, which I 

 considered to be without doubt leaf-rollers of the family Toriricidcc. 

 They were in general appearance much like the Spruce Bud-worm {Tor- 

 trix fiimiferana), though a little smaller, but with a well-marked dorsal 

 and lateral line, which are more characteristic of Pyralid than Tortricid 

 hirva}. 



Soon after, June 14 or 15, one of the caterpillars spun in the tin breed- 

 ing box a cocoon covered with black scurf from the terminal twigs of 

 the sjirnce. 



During the past season, in ^Maine, I collected another caterpillar on 

 the spruce, June 9, but failed to make a description of it or to notice the 

 number of abdominal feet 5 the moth appeared June 24. From this it 

 would appear that the normal food-plant of the caterpillar is the spruce. 



There are four species of this genus of moths in this country, the bet- 

 ter known one besides the present species being E. aniericalis (or Melia 

 americalis). But Their habits are strangely dissimilar, since Prof. C. 

 V. Kiley has stated in the American Naturalut for October, 1883 (p. 



