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THE INSECT RECORD FOR J 9OO 



Throughout this state and Vermont the same conditions seem 

 to have prevailed. There have been no complaints of injury 

 by the Forest Tent Caterpillars, while in many localities there 

 have been expressions of surprise at their disappearance. 



At Claremont, Mr. Fiske noticed that the young caterpillars 

 which had hatched somewhat before the leaves unfolded were 

 eating holes through the outer scales of the buds in order to 



Fig. 2. — Moulting Tent of Forest Tent Caterpillar. 



get at the green and succulent tissues within. This might 

 become a very destructive phase of the attack of this insect 

 were it to become a fixed habit with the species. 



Another sudden disappearance was that of the Spiny Elm 

 Caterpillar^ treated of in Bulletin 67. In 1899 this insect 

 was so abundant as to do a very noticeable injury, but in 1900 



^Vanessa antiopa Linne. 



