1894.] ARMY-WORM AND CUT-WORMS 185 



Lucania luiipunctata. 1 It is such a good one, and the 

 remedies so practicable. I hope to quote from this presently 

 duly acknowledged. You speak very truly as to informa- 

 tion not being asked until the attack is so set up that much 

 hope of victory over it is lost. 



1 should very much like to be allowed to offer my best 

 regards, and respectful expression of my admiration of 

 their good work, to the many kind friends who will 

 be present at the Economic Entomology meeting in August, 

 together with my hearty good wishes for the prosperity 

 of the Association and its members. I owe much to the 

 kindness of my. U.S.A. colleagues and friends. 



October 17, 1894. 



I hasten to thank you for your letter received this after- 

 noon, setting me right as to the origin of the bran-mash 

 and Paris-green application for killing " cut- worms " (leather 

 jackets). I should indeed be sorry not to give credit in the 

 right quarter, and you may rest assured that the first time I 

 have to mention the matter this shall be set right. I am 

 sorry also on my account not to have known that this 

 remedy was in use, and now you have pointed the way I 

 shall be very glad to look the matter up. Through the kind 

 liberality (public as well as private), with which I have always 

 been treated by your country, I have a truly valuable 

 library of your U.S.A. works, from which I often and 

 gratefully profit. 



I am looking forward very much to getting your paper 

 on Economic Entomology, but at present I have only seen 

 pleasant notices of it, and I am greatly desirous to read it 

 in extenso. Attention to this subject is spreading very 

 satisfactorily on the Continent. I am now in communica- 

 tion with Professor J. Jablonowski, of the Entomological 

 staff of the Hungarian Government Department of Agricul- 

 ture at Budapest. He is doing very careful and good work 

 on Thysanoptera (Thrips). Also at Helsingfors (Finland) I 

 hear from Dr. Enzio Reuter that they are contemplating 

 arranging an Entomological Station, and I hope I may be 

 in communication. 



I am now beginning to pass my eighteenth Report through 

 the press. One of the interesting appearances of the past 

 season has been a widely spread outbreak of Charceas 

 grain in is, Antler moth (p. 104). This was more or less in 



1 The larva of a noctuid moth which now and then appears in great 

 numbers in America, marching over the country and destroying young 

 grain crops, grasses, &c. 



