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Red cedar (Jmtiipfrus virginmrna; no injitry): Quince (Pynu cydonia; 

 not bad); Beech {l-agus ip.) ; native plum (/•mniu' umbellala; not 

 bad); Hawthorn {Cratargusf fUnv); Chestnut (Castamea americama 

 var.; slight); Box Huckleberry (Caylussacia: 3 buslic* out of 35 ex- 

 amined) ; Acacia (Kobimia pseudacacia) ; Hawthorn (Cmlaegiuf ptur- 

 vi folia); Mountain Laurel (Kalmut lati folia); Willow {SaHx); 

 Blackberry (Rubut a etc.; on second year growth); Alder (? 



Almuj sp.); Ras|>^ ulmj strigosus var.; on second year stems; 



also R. occidfmlatij var.) ; Blueberry {yaceimimm virgoimm; old wood) : 

 Crab apple (Pynu btucata var.) ; Maple (Acer datycarfum; A. $a€- 

 charinum); Birch (? Betuia sp.) ; Sycamore maple (Aeerf puudo- 

 platanui); Ash {Fraxinms sp.; large wounds) and Dewberry iRulrns 

 trivialis). 



Tr ' herbaceous stems or with thick n^ Mem to be avoided 



by 1 r cicada, as in the case of certain maplea and the pines and 



spruces. 



Additional Note* on Anasa trisCia Dt Oe«r (Hem.). 

 At Black^llurg. \ irginia. July 31. 1901. some squashes in a garden 

 at the VifKinia Experiment Station were found to be badly infested 

 with this insect The cggmaases contained from four to thirty eggs, 

 but occasionally an isolated egg was found; they were on either sofo 

 face of the leaf, usually the lower surface. In two maMct which had 

 hatched all the exit-holes were in the same eiul of bolh the eggs and 

 the mass. On August 6 an adtUt locwtid WM ohterved eating the 

 eggs of the bug; three egga were culcn in m c cetai o n . This fact had 

 been formerly suspected. When first hatched the antennae, head and 

 thorax are red. changing after two hours to black. 



Duration of th« Pupal Sttge of Adalia Ift-punctau (CoL). 

 A full grown larva of this specks obtafaied from an apple tree at 

 Blacksburg. Virginia, June 2$. 1901. and fed in confinement upon aphtds. 

 attached itself to a leaf by the end of its abdomen at about a p. m., 

 June a8, pupated about 8 a. m.. June jo. and e m erg e d as an adtiH about 

 eiqht o'clock July 4 following. When ditturlied. the pupa erected itself 

 violently, no doubt a reaction against parasitism. 



Laptinotarta 10-Hncata (Say) (CoL). 

 I noticed a pair of these beetles apparently mating on Augtist 19^ 

 1901. at Annapolis. Maryland ; larvae were then nuroeroiu on potatoes. 



A Pradacaona Baaray of Macrodactylus ■ n b ap to o am (CoL). 

 At Bladtsburg. Virginia. June 27, 1901. I observed an adult Asilid 

 with an aduh of this beetle impaled on its beak. On June 16. suh- 

 sfinosus was noted as having been very injurious to some cultivated 

 cherries ; the foliage was simply riddled with small irregular holes, 

 while the fruit was badly eaten into, leaving little islands of ^h-- <-«*rr 

 surface standing here and there over the circumference. 



