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REMEDIES. 



Hand pinch the larvae and pupae and destroy them. Chickens 

 tand insectiverons birds will eat them. 



THE EYED ELATOR. 



Alans oculatus (Linn.) 

 We received from Mr. E. W. Shepherd of Jefferson, Me., the 

 past season what seems to be the half-grown larva of the above 

 species, said to have been taken from the trunk of a small apple 

 tree. This insect belongs to the spring beetle family, the larvge of 

 which usually are found under the bark of trees, or boring in decay- 

 ing wood. To find one boring in sound wood is unusual and for 

 this species novel so far as we know. The above species is the 

 largest of the famil}^ and the perfect insect is a handsome beetle 

 over an inch long of a grayish color with two prominent black 

 eye-like spots on the thorax. Smaller species of the same family 

 are common and they all attract attention hy their power to spring 

 when placed on their back. The above species is not liable to do 

 much injury. 



THE HAWTHORN TINGIS. 



Corythuca arcuata. 

 This species was found in abundance feeding upon the foliage of 

 •butternut trees in the western part of the State. They are not 

 likely to do much damage and deserve only a passing notice. By 

 cleaning the ground under the trees in the fall and burning the rub- 

 bish a great many of them would be destroyed. 



THE MOURNING-CLOAK BUTTERFLY. 



Vanessa anliopa^ Linn. 

 The larva of this species was quite abundant the past season 

 about Orono and in other portions of the State, feeding upon the 

 foliage of the elm. This species feeds also on the willow poplar 

 but attracts more attention when devastating our favorite shade 

 Iree. 



