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On June 2, 1918, an infested area was sprayed with Black-Leaf 40, 1 

 part to 800 parts of water, soap being added as in 1917. The nymphs 

 were small and the treatment was veiy effective, practically all the spittle 

 masses disappearing, while they remained abundant on the untreated 

 surrounding parts of the bog. 



In 1918 the writer reared adults of this species from the following: — 



1. Gaylussacia frondosa, Torr. & Gray. 



2. Gaylussacia resinosa, Torr. & Gray. 

 .3. Vaccinium vacillans, Solander. 



4. Vaccinium corymbosum, L. 



5. Vaccinium macrocarpon, Ait. 



6. Andromeda ligustrina, Muhl. 



7. Leucothoe racemosa, Gray. 



8. Cassandra calyculnfa, Don. 



The insect infested all these species except V. corymbosum very abim- 

 dantly. As some of these plants grow in great abundance around or near 

 most Cape bogs, they furnish a large source of infestation for them. As 

 the insect does not infest reflowed bogs, however, its progress from the 

 uplands onto the bogs must be very slow. 



Clastoptera proteus, Fitch, has been defined to include a variety of 

 forms. 1 The writer thinks that the forms (subspecies flava and subspecies 

 nigra, var. a, of Ball) which Professor Osborn bred from dogwood^ really 

 belong to species distinct from the one (subspecies vittata and subspecies 

 nigra, var. b, of Ball) infesting the cranberry and other plants of the 

 heath family. The writer has seen some of Professor Osborn's specimens. 

 Of these, one female and one male belonged to Ball's subspecies flava, 

 and two males to subspecies nigra, var. a. The writer has reared hun- 

 dreds of specimens of both sexes from ericaceous plants. Nearly all his 

 females belong to subspecies vittata. A few of his females and all his 

 males belong to subspecies nigra, var. 6. He has captured specimens of 

 vittata and nigra, var. b, in coition. The pronotum of vittata and of nigra, 

 var. b, always has a slight median longitudinal sulcus. None of Osborn's 

 specimens were at all sulcate longitudinally on the middle of the pro- 

 notum, the two males of nigra, var. a, even being slightly carinate longi- 

 tudinally there instead. Further structural differences should be looked 

 for in the male genitalia. 



The Cranberry Tip Worm (Dasyneura vaccinii Smith). 

 The Proctotrj^pid, heretofore reported ^ as the most unportant parasite 

 of this species, has been identified^ as Ceraphron pallidiventris Ashm. It 

 was bred from the maggots in great numbers in 1917 as it had been in 

 1916. 



' Ball, E. D.: Proc. Iowa Acad. Sei., III., 1895, pp. 186, 187. 



2 Bui. No. 254, Maine Agr. Expt. Sta., 1916, p. 284. 



3 Bui. No. 180, Mass. Agr. Expt. Sta., 1917, p. 226. 



< By Mr. A. B. Gahan of the Bureau of Entomology. 



