Feb., '04] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 77 



I ENCLOSE some clippings from an adv. of a " Moth Catcher" which I 

 think are worth copying for the edification of the readers of the News. 

 How humiliated the average collector must feel when he reads that a lot 

 of obscure and unknown persons have succeeded, without any effort on 

 their part, in getting information about insect life, which he, notwith- 

 standing all his study has never suspected ! to think that the ichneumons 

 sting fruit instead of caterpillars ! It will doubtless be hard for the man 

 who has raised about a million ichneumons from pupae from which he ex- 

 pected some choice moths, to swallow the new idea, but he must come to 

 it if the great moth catcher man says so. And to think of the great dis- 

 covery that a moth makes the lice on cabbages ! Surely some of our 

 "louse specialists" must look into the matter. Now if they can tell us 

 what kind of timber produces wood ticks, and what breed of colts can 

 be got from horse chestnuts, and where to find mare's nests, they will 

 oblige E. J. Smith, Natick, Mass. 



"Arroyo Grand, Cal., Dec. 30, 1901. 



This is to certify that I have used the Haseltine Moth Catchers the 

 past summer and found it to be a perfect success. I caught CODLING 

 MOTHS, the POTATO MOTH or FLY, and the MOTH THAT 

 MAKES THE CABBAGE LOUSE. I had no wormy apples to speak 

 of, although bad in 1900 — Thomas H. Keown." 



"Richland, Mo., Dec. 9, 1901. 



I used one of S. A. Haseltine's Moth Catchers in my cabbage patch. 

 I caught the white moth and kept the green worms out of my cabbage. — 

 Maggie A. Eldridge." 



"The Ichneumon fly, which is called by the book-learned professors a 

 friendly msect, has been seen by practical orchardists to be the guilty 

 fellow that stings the fruit and gives it the appearance of a pepper box. 

 It destroyed the fruit of Austria and Hungary in Europe, and stung and 

 injured the trees. Some of them were found dead with the stings in the 

 twigs of the trees. Col. A. Harrington of Springfield, Mo., saw this 

 (friendly) insect stinging his fruit, and he got the Moth Catcher and 

 cleared them out and made fine fruit. So this so-called (friend) was 

 seen by an orchardist, A. T. Warner, of Lawrenceville, 111., stinging his 

 fruit and ruined its commercial value this year, 1902." 



Since the recent fire in Wicken Sedge, when the growth of about 

 twenty acres of the Fen, the property of Mr. G. H. Verrall, entomolo- 

 gist, of Newmarket, with the rare insects, etc., which find sanctuary 

 there, was destroyed by fire, the Cambridgeshire County Police have 

 been making diligent inquiries as to the cause of the fire, with the result 

 that on Monday four University men from Cambridge called on Mr. Ver- 

 rall and acknowledged that one of their number caused the fire by acci- 

 dentally throwing down an unspent match. The sedge adjacent to the 

 spot where it fell quickly caught fire, and, seeing what had been done, 



