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frost and when they examined their crops the next morning they found countless num- 

 bers of these worms in their oats and corn. They come in such nuinljers that they make 

 a clean sweep of all before them, and unless some way can be found to check their 

 ravages the damage they will do will be exceedingly great. The most of the destruct.on, 

 80 far, has been in the tract of low land referred to. We are anxious to hear from \ ou 

 as soon as possible." — C. E. Thompson. 



" Diamond, Carleton Co., Oat., December 8. — I received your letter and report re 

 the Army-worm, and thank you most sincerely for the promptness with whicli you 

 answered my inquiries. I followed your directions, rolling and ploughing, and found 

 that it de.stroyed them greatly. I used a three section roller, and where tue ground was 

 level it did good work. Where the surface was rough I ploughed three trenches and in 

 the third I sank holes, as you described, and there did not half a dozen succeed in 

 crossing. It was pasture land, and they were heading for the gi'ain, but never reached 

 it, so that I am unable to say anything with regard to fighting them in the grain. They 

 did considerable damage in some parts of this township, Fitzroy, in the grain." — John 

 Greene. 



" Jermyn, Peterboro' Co., Ont., August 10. — I send some moths which came into 

 our house last night in thousands." — Samuel Armstrong. 



"Toronto, August 18. — The Army-worm raoih {L. unipuncta) has been very 

 numerous this fall, literally swarming everywhere during the first three weeks in 

 August." — Jas. H. McDunnough. 



"Port Hope, Durham Co., Ont., August 11. — Several large honeysuckles are grow- 

 ing in my garden covered with berries which attract hundreds of Army-worm moths 

 at night." — Rev. C. J. S. Bethl ne. 



" Port H ijie, Durham, Co., Ont., Nov. 11. — I have been doing some collecting this 

 fall that may be of economic value, viz., the collecting of over six hundred Army-woim 

 moths, mostly f(!males, at sugar, ^ould not killing the moths thus attracted be a very 

 effective way of lighting them ? 



" While collecting larvae last spring, the Army worm did not appear as common as 

 usual, and so I was surprised at the large numbers of the moths that were Hying about 

 the first week in June. They swarmed on the under side of pine branches and ho\ered 

 about the bloom of the barberry in small clouds. No armies appeared in my immediate 

 vicinity, the larvse not being in such numbers as to get ahead of the supply of their 

 natural food. They fed on Quack Grass {Agropyrum), Fox-tail (Setaria) and Wild 

 Buckwheat. After the pease were pulled, the caterpillars sheltered under the bundles 

 and I had a good opportunity to examine them. The bulk were plentifully dotted with 

 the eggs of a Tachina fly. Those very useful beetles, Calosoma calidum and Harpalus 

 caliginosus, were busily feasting on them. Tliese beetles were innumerable, and, when 

 the wind changed after a land breeze, would be washed up on the lake shore in bucketfuls. 



" About August 10, I commenced sugaring ; the bait was smeared on the supports 

 of an open shed facing the north, this, of course, being an unfavourable position, but, 

 notwithstanding, the moths came readily to the sugar. The largest catch was made on 

 the evening of August 17, when I took over a hundred before nine o'clock. Over six 

 hundred were taken before August 25. The mixture used was made by dissolving 

 sugar in hot water and adding enough rum to give an attractive odour." 



"Port Hope, Ont., Dec. 1. — Many of our common beetles are washed up in great 

 numbers on the shores of the lake here, at Toronto and at Grimsby, as well as members 

 of the other orders. After a north wind of one or two days' duration the wind usually 

 shifts till it blows from a southerly direction, and then is the time for a harvest of 

 beetles on the lake shore here. While at Grimsby (on the other side of the lake) in the 

 summer of IS'M, on only two or three occasions did the wind blow on shore, the balance 

 of the time it blew almost continuously from the south. I found many good things on 

 the rare occasions of a north wind." — W. Metcalfe. 



Remedies.— ^JJ ndev this head I have nothing to add to what appeared in my annual 

 report for 1894 as follows : — 



" Although only occurring occasionally in excessive numbers, and then in but few- 

 localities, this moth is very widely distributed in Canada, and may geueraUy bo found 



