AGRICULTI RAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 161 



REMEDIES. 



Bisulphide of carbon is now quite largely used to destroy insects 

 infesting stored grains. In France they put the grain into an 

 insect mill something like a peanut or coffee roaster, and raise the 

 temperature of the grain high enough to kill the moths, eggs and 

 larvae. When the quantity of grain is small, it might be thrown 

 into hot water or heated, and then fed to fowls. The work of this 

 insect resembles in its effects that of the pea weevil, only the hole 

 made by the moth is smaller, and so far as we know these insects 

 never encroach upon each other's domain, the moth infesting the 

 seeds of graminaceous plants, while the pea weevil is partial to 

 legumes. Whether this corn was infested before it left the Shakers, 

 or whether it lay in the wholesale houses in BaDgor during the past 

 summer, and was infested by moths of home production we do not 

 know, but the moth is here sure pop, and we will have to look 

 after it. 



F. L. Harvey. 



Orono, December llth. 



The Lime-Tree Winter-Moth. 



Eybernia Tillaria, Harris. 



Order Lepidoptera : Family Geometridae. 



Among some specimens of female Canker-worms received from 



Mr. F. W. Hilt of Warren, Maine, were several wingless females 



of the above species. The specimens were found on the side of a 



house where they had probably crawled to lay their eggs or meet 



the males. As the Canker-worm is very bad in Maine and as this 



insect has similar habits they should be distinguished. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Eggs pale^yellow, oval and marked with a net work of raised 

 lines. They can be distinguished from the eggs of the Canker- 

 worm by their color and form. (See Experiment Station Report, 

 1888, p. 167, Fig. 20.) The eggs are laid in similar situations as 

 those of the Canker-worm. As the females of both species had 



