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They finally resolved to run down these "singing machines" as they were 

 christened, and by care and patience located them on some old and bat- 

 tered cedar trees, capturing several males of Cicada hieroglyphica Say. 

 Later in the day the a.xe and chisel were brought into use on these same 

 trees, and a number of coleopterous larvae and pupae were secured, the 

 trunks presenting a badly wrecked appearance when they were finally 

 abandoned. Next morning I heard a specimen of the Cicada "singing," 

 and by careful moving located him. But not him alone; his mate was 

 close by on the bare trunk, busily engaged in ovipositing. I watched the 

 specimen for some 'ime and made sure of what she was doing before 

 capturing her. In the character of the egg punctures there was nothing 

 distinctive, but the selection of the raw surface of the wood where we 

 had been chopping was interesting. The trunk was dead and was soft 

 rotting, and into this soft wood the eggs were laid. 



Tlie Codling Moth. — " Insect Life," vol. vii. No. 3, p. 248, contains an in- 

 stalment of proof, by Mr. Marlatt, that the Codling Moth is double- 

 brooded in many places. This is in response to my suggestion that per- 

 haps it had been too generally assumed that there were two broods, and 

 that we might find the second brood exceptional in some localities. Mr. 

 Marlatt is undoubtedly correct in all his observations, and we may assume 

 two broods as the rule throughout the central and southern United States, 

 and even in southern New Jersey, but where the insect becomes single 

 brooded is yet a question. My own observations were positive, and are 

 not doubted by Mr. Marlatt, but it does seem as if New Brunswick was 

 very abnormally situated and not favorably for the development of insect 

 life. Incidentally, it may be said th^t it is a miserably poor collecting 

 region for most orders of insects. 



A New Chilean Vine-destroying Insect.— About the year 1880 my atten- 

 tion was called to a small vineyard at Quillota half destroyed by some 

 unknown disease. On examining the roots of some of the dead and 

 dying vines I found a curious gall-like body on all of*them. These galls 

 or cysts, were sub-spherical in shape, the shell was rough, of stout tex- 

 ture, reddish brown in color, from 5 to 7 millimetres in diameter and full 

 of a liquid of a creamy color and consistency, with a very peculiar and 

 abominable odor. An examination of this fluid under the microscope 

 showed corpuscles floating in it, also what I took to be rudiments of 

 tracheae. One of the best microscopists that I ever met, my friend Dr. 

 Bruner, also studied these bodies very attentively, but failed to arrive at 

 any definite conclusion. I fancied we were examining the larva of an 

 insect in the act of changing into the pupa state, yet the change was so 

 complete that no rudiment of any organ could be found, except the sup- 

 posed tracheae. Various remedies were tried on the vineyard, but in 

 vain, and the vines were uprooted and replaced by lucerne {Medicago 

 sativa). I paid no more attention to the matter for some years, but in 

 Nos, some one hundred miles to the south of Quillota, serious damage 



