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hyperparasite, Dibrachys boucheanus Ra'tz. was reared from 

 material received from Glen's Falls (N. Y.) It probably attacked P im p 1 a 

 inquisitor Say. 



The effects of a windstorm at Slingerlands on this insect while it 

 was in the pupa stage is worthy of record. June 29 and 30 there was a 

 storm with a maximum wind velocity of 26 miles an hour, this being the 

 record at Albany, only seven miles distant. The wind tore hundreds of 

 cocoons from their fastenings and strewed them over lawn and field, 

 giving in places almost the effect of a light fall of snow. It is not likely 

 that the wind killed many of the insects within their cocoons, but it 

 brought them within easy reach of natural enemies, and a heavy rain 

 would probably have destroyed many of the pupating insects. Two 

 days later, July 2, moths, principally males, were very abundant. They 

 flew about the appletrees literally as thick as bees in the late afternoon 

 and early evening. The caterpillars had been somewhat of a nuisance 

 earlier in the season, but the moths were worse, at least for those wishing 

 to enjoy the shade and coolness of the trees, on account of the ejected 

 pinkish fluid which gummed and stained clothes in a very annoying 

 manner. 



Fall army worm (L aphyg ma frugiperda Abb. and Sm.). 

 This insect was very abundant and destructive in Buffalo and vicinity 

 last fall. M. F. Adams of that city reported to me that he found large 

 patches in many lawns entirely destroyed in one section of the city. 

 The grass on one large lawn had all been killed except a little on the 

 front portion, it having been entirely eaten and nothing remaining but 

 weeds. The most serious damage appeared to have been caused by the 

 larvae cutting off the grass just below the crown, thus destroying it. 

 The pest evinces a decided preference for blue grass, and, as that consti- 

 tutes a large proportion of the lawns in Buffalo,they suffered accordingly. 



Red-banded leaf-roller (Lophoderus triferana Walk.). The 

 depredations of this insect on green pop-corn were brought to my atten- 

 tion by C. H. Stuart, Newark (N. Y.) in July 1899, when several of the 

 light green caterpillars were sent with the statement that they had 

 attacked about 27 % of the crop, 37 % of the corn on each infested ear 

 being destroyed. A larva was sent to Washington (D. C), but the 

 authorities there were unable to identify the pest till the moth appeared 

 in February 1900. This is one of the cranberry worms which cause 

 trouble in Massachusetts. It has been recorded as feeding on elm, soft 

 maple, oak, apple, rose, bean, Gnaphalium polycephalum, 



