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and elm. A Tachina parasite is active against these caterpillars 

 in Maine. 



Garden Fleas. In contrast with the past two seasons no 

 observations of the garden flea, Smynthurus albamaculata, 

 Harvey were made. During the early spring, at the time these 

 minute insects have previously been most conspicuous, contin- 

 uous rains prevented field observations on such insects as these. 

 The account of injury due tc this species given in Bulletin No. 

 123 of this Station, page 220, was the occasion of several 

 requests from specialists in this group for reference to the orig- 

 inal description. Professor Harvey's description together with 

 drawings by Mr. J. H. Emerton were published in the Report of 

 this Station for 1896, pages 124-126. 



Mosquitoes. There is no adequate record of Maine mosqui- 

 toes although in many parts of the State certain species are 

 excessively troublesome. A few collections were made this 

 season and sent to the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, 

 D. C., where several specialists are at work on this family. 

 Doctor Dyar kindly determined them as follows : 



Anopheles punctipennis Say. Orono, July 27 and October 

 I, about light in house. 



Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say. Orono, September 20, in 

 house, 



Aedes fuscus O. S. Orono, July 27. 



Aedes canadensis Theob. Trenton, August 10; Caribou, 

 August 17. 



Aedes sylvestris Theob. Trenton, August 10, 



Aedes sotticitans Walk. Trenton, August 10. 



Aedes abfitchii Felt, fitchii Felt, or subcantans Felt (Adults 

 alike need larvae to separate). Orono, August 3; Trenton. 



All of the species of Aedes except fuscus given in the fore- 

 going list were until recently commonly referred to the genus 

 Culex. 



Insects for Identification. A few, only, of the large number 

 of insects received for identification this season are recorded in 

 the following- pages. 



Such common, widespread, and constantly occurring forms 

 as the cecropia moth and oyster-shell scale have been omitted. 

 Such information as the increasing parasitism of the red-humped 

 caterpillar has been summarized in a single statement elsewhere 

 in the bulletin rather than listed as 70 or 80 separate items. 



