AGRICDLTUUAL EXPEKIMENT STATION. 



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THE CECROPIA EMPEROK MOTH. 



Platysamia Cecropia., (Linn.) 

 Ord. Lepidoptera : Fam. BoMiivciDyE. 



P^very season for the last eight we have received either larvae 

 cocoons or moths of the above species accompanied by letters of 

 inquiry. We have concluded to publish cats of all the stages of 

 this conspicuous insect. Those who wish a description will find it 

 in Expt. Station Rept., 1890, p 121. The insect is distributed 

 throughout the State as specimens have been received from every 

 section. 



Fig. 9 a, represents the larvte full size ; Fig. b, the cocoou full 

 size ; Fig. 9 c, the full sized moth. 



THE CHIXCH BUG. 



Blissus leuvopterus, Say. 



Order Hemiptera : Family LiYGjeidje. 



In company with Hon. B. Walker McKeen we spent two days 

 last September in the vicinity of Fryeburg examining the area 

 infected by chinch bugs. 



HISTORY. 



By interrogating some of the oldest inhabi- 

 tants we learned that this pest_^has done more 

 or less damage in the intervale lands about 

 Fryeburg for at least twenty-five years. It 

 does not affect the area infested uniformly, but 

 occurs in patches, often skipping entire farms. 

 Nor is the infested area the same from year to 

 year. Farms infested one season may become 

 exempt the next and those not infested one 

 season infested the next. Then there are sea- 



riG.13. CHIXCH BUG. SOUS favorablc for the bugs when the damage 

 The siioi-t line below done is greater over the entire area and then 



shows natural length, gg^sons of minimum damage. The insects do 



