ENTOMOLOGIST AND BOTANIST. 



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Kkaring Eggs or Butteuflie.s. — I have been 

 so snccespful this season in ijersiiadinof female 

 bntterflies to deposit their pfrgs in captivity, that 

 I thinic it well to mention the matter in the 

 Kiitomoloyist. Last season I fonnd it impos- 

 sible to induce P. marcel/us to lay upon leaves 

 01- stems of pawpaw that liad been cut. This 

 .spriiijj; I placed a nail-keg, from which the bot- 

 tom had been knocked out, the (op being covered 

 witli cloth, over a low pawpaw growing near 

 my house; and on coiilining a female Ajax 

 therein, she at once began to deposit her eggs, 

 and continued till the number reached more 

 than twenty. In a few days the young larvaa 

 <iime out, and with very little trouble I suc- 

 ceeded in laising several of them to the chrysa- 

 lis state, ill which iliey now are. (I expect 

 to prove by this brood that Marcellus and Ajax 

 are but diflerent broods of the same iiwect ; a 

 fact I have felt confident of for some years p.ast, 

 but which I could not absolutely establish for 

 want of the link which this exi)eriment will 

 supply.) I afterwards treated other females of 

 Ajax in the same manner, and with the same 

 results. A C'.^jAiVorftce, confined in the same way 

 with growing clover, at once deposited a great 

 number of eggs. So did JSfisioniades lycidas and 

 X. pylades, Scudd., upon Hedysarum. In fact, 

 in every instance so far tried, the females have 

 obliged me with as many eggs as I wanted; and 

 I incline to think this mode of taking eggs will 

 always be successful.— TF. //. Edwards, Coal, 

 biiryh. West Va., in Canadian Eiitomoloyisl. 



ON OCR TABLE. 



NOTRS ON Glt.U'TAS (_'. .VntKL'M AND IXTEKIioGA- 

 TIONIS, K;ii). By Win. H. K(l\v;inls. 



THK C'OU.NTRV (iENlLEMAN's Magazink, Ibr.Tuiie, 

 1870. Loiuloii (Eiig.): Shiipkhi, Marshall & Co., 

 publisliers. 



GEOLOGiCAr, .Survey OF Indiana for 18G9, Also, 

 Maps ami Coloreil Suctions, accompanyhij,' the same. 



Ixjuuious Insects. New and Little Known 

 A. S. Packard, Jr., M D. Maieh, 1870. 



(Ji.i.Mi'SE.s OK Natuke. A MajTazuie of Natural Hi.'^- 

 toi-y ill all its branches. Eiliteil by .Samuel M. Ma.vwcll, 

 Mauch Chunk, Pa. 



Third Annual Rbi-okt ok the Ohio State Hor- 

 ticultural Society, for 1800. 



Monthly Reports of the Department of Agri- 

 culture KOR the Years 1807-8. J. R. JJotlw, eilitor. 

 A\ ashinijton, 1). (J. 



N.iTioxAL KiircATiON: An AilUress delivereil before 

 tl'c 111' s \\ L«kyan I'uiversity. at Blooraiugton- Ills 



The Poultry Dulletin. Issued monthly, by the 

 t-xecutive Committee of the New York State Poultry 

 Society. 



The Canadian Poultry Chronicle, No. 1 . To- 

 ronto: July, 1,870. 



Premium List op Illinois State Fair. Com- 

 u.encing September 2Gth, 1870. 



Entomology indeed run mad! — Our fiiend, 

 Mark Miller, in the last number of the Pomo- 

 logiM has an article devoted to THE Currant- 

 worm. The article treats ostensibly of the 

 Currant or Gooseberry Span-woi-m (Ellojyia 

 ribearia, Fitch), which is a tiuc moth (Order 

 Lepidojitera) indigenous to America; but, by 

 way of illustration, we are treated to the figures 

 of a fly and sundry worms, which— though the 

 first, in the venation of the wings, is. unlike 

 anything God ever made, and the last might be 

 taken for so many young alligators — are yet 

 evidently intended to represent the Imported 

 Currant-worm {Nemalus ventvicosus, King), 

 which is a Hymenopterous importation from 

 Europe, and of which not one word is said In 

 the text. Is it any wonder that Economic En- 

 tomology is under-estimated, or that it makes 

 slow progress, when such loose trash will pass 

 muster with our leading horticultural journals? 

 What would our readers think, if wo were to 

 expatiate upon the excellencies of the Ued Cur- 

 rant, and, by way of illustration, should refer 

 them to a bunch of Concord Grapes? Verily 

 we are driven almost to distraction when we 

 find such ignorance foisted on the public for 

 knowledge. Mark Twain's first teachings as an 

 agricultural editor are gospel compared to the 

 reckless and undigested stutt' that is sometimes 

 spread before the agricultural reader, under the 

 cloak of that much abused word, "practical!"' 



Red Si'idek. — The ad interim committee of 

 the Illinois State Horticultural Society report 

 great damage done, in the northern part of the 

 •State, by a new [?] Acarus, or Mite. We pre- 

 sume they have got hold of that most trouble- 

 some pest, the Red Spider (2'rombidium telu- 

 rium, Herm.), which is pale yellow when young. 

 The young of most mites diti'er much from th<! 

 adults, and inauy of them are ti-legged in.<-toad of 

 8-legged, as they afterwards become. This mite 

 is always injurious during hot, dry weather, and 

 a good rain will soon diminish its numbers. 



!^= We frequently refer our readers to back 

 numbers of our Journal, in order to save time 

 and repetition. We cannot continually repeat 

 what has already been written about some par- 

 ticular insect, and those who have not been 

 subscribers from the start, or have not the num- 

 bers to which reference is made, would do well 

 to send to the publishers for them. 



I^° We learn with pleasure that our Southern 

 correspondent, J. P. Stelle, has been appointed 

 Entomologist to the Tennessee State Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



