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habits, running and flying in sandy places during the hottest part of the 

 day; never coming to hghts at night. — T. D. A. Cockerell, N. Mexico 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. 



I NOTICE in vol. V, No. 8, of October, 1894, that at the meeting of the 

 Economic Entomologists held in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 14th and 15th, 

 that " Mr. South wick presented a note on the Wood Leopard Moth in the 

 parks of New York City." He also advocates the use of the electric 

 lights to attract the moths. Now, this is the point I wish to call your at- 

 tention to. At the beginning of April, this year, I called upon Mr. Squire, 

 the Commissioner of Parks in Brooklyn, and I was telling him about the 

 deplorable condition of the trees in Brooklyn and New York from the 

 Zeiizera pyrina. He tiien asked me what remedy I proposed to help 

 keep the pest down, and I then told him that if the city would erect elec- 

 tric lights all over the wooded part of Prospect Park that they would act 

 as a " trap" for this pest. I have seen from three year's constant visits to 

 Prospect Park (close to which I lived at that time) that the few electric 

 lights that they have there would be filled, "as it were," in the morning 

 in the season when the moth emerges. This, undoubtedly in my mind, 

 is one of the very best, and one of the cheapest methods of destruction 

 to this moth, as it is very partial to a bright light. I have a "trap," also, 

 which can be used for catching the males, and as the insect in question is 

 a borer, the manner of reaching it for destruction is very limited, but the 

 electric light is a sure and valuable way, and it should not be left too long 

 or they will find that every valuable tree in New York and Brooklyn will 

 be beyond help, and then there will be a lament that it had not been at- 

 tended to at the right time. Now is the right time, this has been going 

 on to my knowledge in the parks of New York and Brooklyn since 1878, 

 for I took the imagoes then, and know what it was, having seen it in Eu- 

 rope. So, if we can get our scientific papers to hammer away they will 

 possibly do something to help our cities keep some of the trees, which 

 are, and should be, one of the most pleasing sights to a people who con- 

 tinuously remain within its limits. — H. G. White. 



Mo.NONvcHUS VULPECULUS Fab. AND ITS PARASITES. — This Curculi- 

 onide was taken abundantly at Sparrow Lake, Ontario, from June 20th 

 to 27th, on flowers of Iris versicolor, in the young seed pods of which it 

 was ovipositing. These pods are triangular, many of them more than 

 four inches in length and half an inch in width, containing at each angle 

 a geminate row of large, compressed, closely-packed seeds, each one of 

 which contains enough of nutriment for the sustenance of one larva, 

 though many feed on two contiguous seeds. Many of the pods have 

 nearly all the grains infested. The parent beetle perforates the pod on 

 the side of the angle with her beak and turning round inserts an egg into 

 the puncture, and so proceeds along the pod at short intervals. The 

 larva has the general appearance of that of a Balaninus, and transforms 

 within the shell of the seed on which it has fed without spinning a cocoon; 



