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nies were found scattered generally al)out the city in 1391. 

 Most of the colonies in Chelsea have been exterminated 

 within the last three years. The city has been entirely in- 

 spected during the fall, and only a very few egg-clusters 

 have been found there. 



Revere. 



The first inspection of Revere, in 1891, showed that the 

 moths were in all parts of the town except upon the salt 

 marsh, where none were found. The work of the past three 

 years in Revere has been quite effective, and only one egg- 

 cluster has been found there in the last inspection. 



Saugus. 



In the inspection of 1891 colonies of the moth were found 

 in Saugus along the principal roads leading through the town 

 from Maiden, Melrose and Revere to Lynn ; and many other 

 colonies were found, not only in the village, but in the farm- 

 ing section of the town. Careful inspection of the woods 

 was not made until later. The inspection of the woodlands 

 in Saugus and other central towns was always more or less 

 incomplete, on account of inadequate resources ; but colonies 

 were found in the woodlands during 1893, 1894 and 1895, 

 showing that these woodlands were more or less infested, 

 and in some cases the colonies were quite large. For lack 

 of sufiicient means we have not been able to do all the work 

 that was required in these colonies, and, as a consequence, 

 although a great deal of time has been expended on them and 

 they have been partially held in check, they have increased 

 and extended their limits, so that they now not only threaten 

 to extend still farther into the Saugus woods, but to reinfest 

 Lynn, Salem, Swampscott and other places where the moth 

 is now nearly exterminated. If the work of extermination 

 is to be continued with any prospect of success, it is an abso- 

 lute necessity that the eggs in this woodland be destroyed 

 before the caterpillars hatch out in the spring. This it will 

 be impossible to do without an immediate and adequate 

 appro})riation. 



