nil-: i.iinv MOTH. 1"! 
Berwick, 3; Kennebunkport, 2; York. 78; Wells, 18; North 
Berwick. 9; Sanford, 1; Kennebunk, 4; and National Reser- 
vation at TogUS, 1. 
CONNECTICUT. 
Dr. W. E. Britton, state entomologist of Connecticut, 
writes: "The gipsy moth in Connecticut occupies an area 
of less than one square mile, which is practically the same as 
given in my last report. We have found a few caterpillars 
a short distance toward the west, and have contracted the 
boundary line somewhat on the east, but there is really no 
spread, and no further infestations have been discovered in 
spite of careful scouting work which has been done by the 
state men and by the United States inspectors. 
The insect is well under control, though not yet extermi- 
nated. I have men there now at work, and while they will 
continue through the winter, clearing up brush and rubbish 
and pruning trees, they have nearly finished the scouting 
work, and have destroyed something like one hundred and 
twenty egg masses since the eggs were laid in August. It 
hardly seems probable that they can find many more, so 
thorough has their examination been." 
History of Spread in New Hampshire. 
Realizing the probability of the spread of the gipsy moth 
into New Hampshire by the large amount of automobile 
traffic along the main road from Newburyport, Mass., to 
Portsmouth, N. H., in December, 1904, the writer had the 
trees along it examined through the towns of Seabrook and 
Hampton Falls by two trained assistants. No traces of 
infestation, however, were found at this time. 
In September, 190."). the inspectors of Massachusetts had 
located the pest in all of the towns along the northern 
boundary of Massachusetts from Methuen eastward, and 
discovered that it had existed in Newburyport since 1904. 
It was, therefore, apparent that the neighboring towns of 
New Hampshire were undoubtedly infested. Through the 
courtesy of the Massachusetts superintendent for suppress- 
