1896.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 3D9 



lutions were adopted by the Association recommending its continuance, 

 declaring its importance and expressing confidence in the ability of the 

 Committee. 



Afternoon Session. — Mr. M. V. Slingerland showed a series of photo- 

 graphs of insect and insect work, calling especial attention to certain of 

 them, and to some new facts illustrated for the first time. Referring to 

 the Codling moth, adults emerged from larvae collected on the trees in 

 Spring, beginning June 13, and continuing to June 22, much later than 

 had been supposed heretofore. The egg stage lasts from seven to ten 

 days, and the eggs are not laid, as originally believed, on the blossom end 

 of the apple, but anywhere on its surface. The little larva, however, as 

 a rule enters the apple at the blossom end, crawling from the point where 

 it hatched to the point of entry. He further called attention to the fact 

 that the lobes at the blossom end of the apple tended to close after the 

 apple became of some size, not to reopen until a much later period of 

 growth. Apples sprayed in that condition would not be likely to receive 

 much of the poison at the point where the larvae enter; but on the other 

 hand whatever poison was lodged before the lobes closed, would be re- 

 tained in position and would not be likely to wash out by rains. As to 

 the number of broods the rule seems to be, near Ithaca, that there is one 

 only, as indicated by Mr. Smith, from New Jersey; occasionally, however, 

 a caterpillar goes through its entire transformations the same year. Mr. 

 Fletcher, speaking to this point, stated that east of Toronto one brood 

 was normal, west of Toronto there were two annual broods. 



Mr. J. A. Lintner gave notes on " Insect Attacks of the Year." The 

 season was remarkable for the absence of the apple Aphis, the bud worm, 

 the apple Bucculatrix and the hop Aphis. There has been also a great 

 paucity of insect life in the Adirondacks, many species ordinarily abun- 

 dant being entirely wanting. The army worm appeared injuriously in 

 forty-eight of the sixty counties in the State. There was not, however, a 

 uniform infestation, but rather an attack in patches here and there in each 

 county. The first report was received July ist and others came in rapid 

 succession after that time. The bran, sugar and arsenic mash proved 

 very successful in attracting and killing the insects. They would feed 

 upon this material in preference to oats and grasses, and even leave corn 

 plants for it. The wheat-head army worm also appeared in injurious 

 numbers in St. Lawrence County, and did considerable injury. The 

 canker worm, Aiiisopteryx vernata, was serious in scattered localities 

 and quite resistent to arsenical mixtures ; one pound in one hundred 

 gallons being required. Macrobasis unicolor was very injurious on a 

 locust hedge in New York City; pyrethium was recommended and proved 

 entirely successful in killing or driving away the insects. Cacoecia rosa- 

 cea.na was destructive in apple orchards, and another larva, possibly that 

 of Nolophana tnalafia, was found boring into apples. The asparagus 

 beetle is still spreading, and has now reached Oneida County. Elaph- 

 idion villosum has been injurious on apple. E. parallelum has been abun. 



