l62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, '03 



In this connection it may be a propos to record an unpublished obser- 

 vation. On the i8th of August, 1900, I saw that many spiders {Epeira 

 stellata Hentz) had woven orb like webs, 4-6 inches in diameter, in the 

 grass and sedges bordering a shallow arm of Mecox Bay, south of Bridge- 

 hampton, Long Island, N. Y. Within the length of one-tenth of a mile, 

 I found four of these webs containing each a single dragonfly and one web 

 containing two. The insects were Enallagma durum and E. civile, fully 

 colored, dead, more or less enshrouded in silk, and some partly eaten. — 

 Philip P. Calvert. 



Doings of Societies. 



The association known as * ' The Pacific Northwest Economic 

 Entomologists, met in Spokane, Wash., on February 3, 4, and 

 5. The experiment station entomologists of Montana, Wash- 

 ington, California and Idaho, were present, namely, R. C. 

 Cooley, C. V. Piper, C. W. Woodworth and J. M. Aldrich. 

 Professor A. B. Cordley, of the Oregon station, was detained 

 at home, otherwise the representation would have been com- 

 plete for the territory covered. 



Reports were handed in on topics that had been selected for 

 comparative work one year ago ; they covered some phases of 

 the life of the codling moth, with the subject of number and 

 time of sprayings. The subject of co-operative work for next 

 year was extensively discussed, and Professor Woodworth was 

 made a committe to propose a definite plan to the other members 

 in the near future. 



In the discussion of insects of the year. Professor Cooley 

 described the spread of the codling moth in Montana. He 

 had found the cocoons abundantly in freight cars, by which 

 medium they might be transported almost any distance even 

 after the apples had been taken out. Since last year he had 

 had further assurances of the presence of the plum curculio in 

 the Bitter Root valley, west of the continental divide, but had 

 not yet seen the insect there. 



Professor Piper gave an abstract of a new bulletin on the 

 sulphur, lime and salt wash. Extensive experimentation had 

 convinced him that one pound of lime, one pound of sulphur 

 and four gallons of water, or in that proportion, gave an abso- 

 lutely effective winter spray. He had no difficulty in killing 



