1900] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 373 



Jersey it has been at times and locally troublesome on beans, of which it 

 has undoubtedly eaten the foliage, but none of the elaterids known to 

 me feed very much at the worst. 



The attempted use of poisoned bran against Al/orhhia nitida failed 

 as, theoretically, it ought to, for the small mouth parts of these beetles, 

 with the weak, compound mandibles, are not well adapted to mastication. 



Dr. E. P. Felt presented "Notes of the Year for New York." The 

 forest tent caterpillar seems to have found the season much to its liking 

 in that and indeed some of the New England States, and widespread 

 injury has been caused to sugar bush as well as to orchard and shade 

 trees in the infested region. The elm leaf beetle is spreading and very 

 injurious in its new localities. In this connection it is interesting to note 

 that this is now the third successive season during which very little in- 

 jury has been done in New Jersey, more, however, this year (1899) than 

 during the two last preceding it. 



It is decidedly interesting to note that the Diabrotica 12-punctata has 

 spread far into northern New York and has reached Buffalo in its progress, 

 which seems to become more rapid each year. Brood XIX of the periodi- 

 cal Cicada occurred in several counties in western New York. 



Mr. W. G.Johnson presented " Miscellaneous Entomological Notes" 

 on a variety of species of local economic importance. 



Messsrs. Webster and Mally presented notes on the "Insects of the 

 Year in Ohio," mentioning a great number of specieg. An interesting 

 statement is: "At last we have found out how to kill. the rose-chafer, 

 Macrodactylus subspinosus. * * * One half pound of fish oil soap, 

 dissolved in a gallon of water and sprayed upon them, will kill ninety- 

 five per cent, of the adults, the females being especially susceptible, if 

 the suds is sprayed directly upon them." This sounds suspicious, and 

 will certainly not apply in New Jersey, where suds of double that strength 

 have proved ineffective. The fact that females were the more susceptible 

 recalls the results of one e.xperiment with sludge-oil soap, where females 

 were so generally killed that I e.xamined closely and found that all were 

 wornout specimens that had oviposited and were ready to die naturally. 



Mr. Marlatt discussed " Temperature Control of Scale Insects," a point 

 which was incidentally referred to by others, and formed the subject of 

 another paper by VV. M. Scott, of Georgia. It seems that, to the South 

 especially, the low temperatures of the early part of 1899 were fatal to a 

 variety of species, while others were unharmed. Further to the north 

 the efifect was less marked, and it is notable that the lowest recorded 

 temperatures failed to affect the pernicious scale. Species that wintered 

 in the egg stage suffered as much as those that were partly grown. " It 

 will be seen that the cold of the winter in question was as efficient as an 

 ordinary treatment with the best of our insecticides." 



Mr. Marlatt also gave an account of Aspidiotus osireceformis, a Euro- 

 pean species which has been introduced into the United States, and has 



