ENTOMOLOGIST AND BOTANIST. 



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KnAHiNG Ec.iisoi'' Blittkkki.iks. — I have been 

 so successifnl this season in persiiadinor female 

 butterflies to ileposit their ejrg-s in captivity, lliat 

 I tliinlc it well to mention the matter in the 

 I'lntomoloi/lnt. Last season I Ibnnd it impos- 

 sible to induce P. mnrrclhis to lay upon loaves 

 or stems of pawpaw that had been cut. This 

 spring I placed a nail-ke<^-. from which the bot- 

 tom had been knocked out, the top being covered 

 with clolh, over a low pawpaw growing near 

 my house; and on confining 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 larvx 

 came out, and with very little trouble I suc- 

 ceeded in raising several of them to the chrysa- 

 lis state, in which they now are. (I expect 

 to prove by this brood that Marcellas and Ajax 

 are but dillerent broods of the same insect; a 

 fact I have felt confident of for some years past, 

 but which I could not absolutely establish for 

 want of the link which this experiment will 

 supply.) I afterwards treated other females of 

 Ajax in the same manner, and with the same 

 I'esults. A C. phUodice, confined in the same way 

 with growing clover, at once deposited a great 

 number of eggs. So did Kisionlades lycldas and 

 N. pylades, Scudd., upon Hedysaruvi. In fact, 

 in every instance so far tried, the females have 

 obliged me with as many eggs as I wanted; and 

 1 incline to think this mode of taking eggs will 

 always be successful. — W. H. Edwards, Coal, 

 burgh, West Va., in Canadian Entomoloyist. 



ON OUR TABLE. 



Notes on Gk.mt.^sC. Aukkum .vnd Ixterroga- 

 TIONIS, Fill). Hy Win. II. E<lwar(ls. 



The CouNTitY (cEXTLEMan'.s JIaoazine, for June, 

 1870. LonUoii (Enj;.): Simpkin, Mai'i^lmll & Co., 

 publishers. 



GEOLOdlCAl, SuuvEV OK Indiana lor 18G9. Also, 

 Mai)S aiul ColorctI Sections, aecompanyiiig the same. 



Injurious Insects, New ani> Little Known. 

 A. S. Packai-a, Jr., M D. March, 1870. 



(i I.IMPSES ov Nature. A Jfaofazine of Natural Ilfs- 

 tory in all its branches. Ktliteil by Samuel JI. Maxwell, 

 Maiicii Chunk, I'a. 



TiiiiiD Annual Report ok the Ohio State IIor- 



TlCl'LTUKAI. .SoCIETV, for 18(>!». 



JIONTllLY KEI'ORTSOKTIIEDeI'ARTMICNTOF .\GRl- 

 CULTURE FOR THE YEARS lS(i7-8. J. U. Doclgc, eilitor. 



Washington, D. (i. 



National Education: An Address ilelivereil before 

 the Illinois Wcsluyan I'niversitv, at Bloomingtoii, Ills.. 

 June Uth, 1870. by Rev. A. C. George, D.D., Editor of 

 Ihe "Weekly Mali."' 



The 1'oultry Hulletin. Lssued monthly, by the 

 Executive Coinmittee of the New York State Poultry 

 Society . 



The Canadian Poultry Chronicle, No. 1 . To- 

 ronto: July, 1870. 



Premium List op Illinois State Fair. Oom- 

 ii.cnciiig September 20th, 1870. 



Entomolocv indeed uun mad! — Our friend, 

 Mark Miller, in the last number of the /'omo- 

 loyist has an article devoted to TIIK Currant- 

 worm. The article treats ostensibly of the 

 (Currant or (Gooseberry Span-worm (/Cllopin 

 ribearid. Fitch), which is a line moth (Order 

 Lfpidnptera) indigenous to America; but, by 

 w:iy of illuslralioii, we are (lealcd to the ligures 

 of a lly and sundry worms, which — though the 

 first, in the venation of the wings, is unlike 

 anything (iod ever made, and the last might be 

 taken for so many young alligators — are yet 

 evidently intended to represent the Imported 

 Currant-worm (N'ematns rentricosiis, King), 

 which is a Hymeuopterous importation from 

 Kurope, and of which not one word is said in 

 the text. Is it any wonder that Economic En- 

 tomology is undei'-estimaled, or that it makes 

 slow progress, when such loose trash will pass 

 muster with our leading hortieultural journals? 

 AVhat would our readers think, if we were to 

 expatiate upon the excellencies of the lied Cur- 

 rant, and, by way of illustration, should refer 

 them to a bunch of Concord Grapes? Verily 

 we are driven almost to distiactioii 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!"' 



Ked Si'iDioK. — The ad interim committee of 

 the Illinois State Horticultural Society report 

 great damage done, in the northern part of the 

 State, by a new [?] yIc«/-M«, or Mite. We pre- 

 sume they have got hold of that most trouble- 

 some pest, the Red Spider {Trumbidium tcla- 

 riuni, llerin.), which is pale yellow when young. 

 The young of most mites difier much from the 

 adults, and many of them areO-legged instead 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. 



IST VVc fretiucntly rioter our readers to l)ack 

 numbers of our Journal, in order to save time 

 and repetition. We cannot continually repeat 

 \\hat has already been written about some par- 

 ticular insect, and tho.se who have not been 

 subscribers from the start, or have not (he num- 

 biu's to which reference is iiiaih'. would do well 

 to send to the publishers for them. 



ly We learn with pleasure that our Southern 

 correspondent, J. P. Stelle, has beiui appointed 

 Entomologist to the Tennessee State Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



