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Eemedies. — (1) If the branch be dead or dying cut it off, 

 and saw into sections to discover the marauderis. When 

 trees are attacked the best remedy is to thrust stout wire 

 into the holes; it is impossible to reach the caterpillars in 

 any other way. If you can get at any of the contents of 

 butterfly-killing bottles, or cyanide of potassium or chloro- 

 form, place a little of either in the hole and seal up with 

 wax, clay, etc. The odour will kill all caterpillars. (2) 

 Paraffin oil, tobacco juice, and sulphur fumes are each 

 good, forced into the burrows by means of a piece of 

 indiarubber tube fixed to the nozzle of a syringe or fumi- 

 gator. 



Green. leaf Weevil (Phyllobius maculicornis). — This 

 little weevil measures one-sixth of an inch in length, has 

 A-ellowish-red horns, black legs, brown shanks and feet, 

 and a golden-yellow scaly body. It infests the foliage of 

 cherries, plums, apples, and nuts, and devours the soft 

 portions of the leaves. In some seasons and districts the 

 weevils are very prevalent, and do an inniiense amount of 

 injury. 



Kemedy. — The only satisfactory remedy is to spread 

 sheets beneath the trees, and to suddenly and vigorously 

 shake the branches, so as to dislodge the weevils. Like 

 other weevils, when disturbed they feign death for a short 

 time; consequently when they fall on the sheetis they will 

 remain quiet sufficiently long to enable them to be col- 

 lected and destroyed. 



Lackey Moth (Clissiocampa neustria). — The larv;e 

 of this moth congregate in colonies under webs, and devour 

 the leaves. The parent has wings from one to one and 

 a-half inches in width, reddish-brown fore wings barred 

 with dusky brown; hind-wings of similar colour or paler. 

 Both male and female moths appear in July, August, and 

 September. The female deposits its eggs in rings on the 

 shoots, each ring consisting of upwards of two hundred 

 eggs. The eggs hatch in April. At first the larvie are 

 black and hairy, but when approaching maturity they turn 



