BULLETIN No. 177. 



INSECT NOTES FOR 1909.* 



OSKAR A. JOHANNSEN. 



A miscellaneous lot of notes comprising both new observa- 

 tions, notices of species dealt with more fully in other publi- 

 cations, and mere statements of insect situations fall conve- 

 niently into an annual bulletin under the title of Insect Ahtes. 

 In this publication compilations and remedial measures are both 

 avoided for the most part, as the economic necessity for either 

 of these is met by illustrated descriptive circulars more satis- 

 factory to the people of the state who submit the standard 

 troublesome insects for determination. 



The briefer notes of miscellaneous character found in this 

 bulletin are transferred with a little editing- from the entomo- 

 logical note books of the department. The Lot numbers here 

 given arp merely references to Station records for the species 

 in question and have no significance beyond permanentlv link- 

 ing the published account to the Station collection and notes, 

 which is in some cases desirable. 



* Papers from the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station: Ento- 

 mology No. 41. 



