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The best remedy is to scour the infested portions in the 

 spring, when the insects have just hatched, with a solution of 

 soft soap and carbolic acid. According to Dr. Le Baron, 

 greasing the tree with lard or linseed oil has proved an effectual 

 remedy. His experiments with these substances are stated. 



The Forest Tent Caterpillar. (The New England Homestead 

 for June 19, 1886, xx, p. 229, c. 4-5 — 30 cm.) 



Caterpillars described, collecting in masses on apple and cherry 

 trees in St. Albans, Vt., are the Clisiocamjoa sylvatica Harris; 

 its differing habits from G. Americana : its common name 

 unfortunate as it is not limited to the forest, nor is it a tent 

 occupier ; the peculiar masses in which it collects on apple, 

 plum, cherry, and maple described. Remedies are removing the 

 egg -belts, jarring the larvae from the trees, and destroying the 

 masses of the larvae in mornings or evenings. 



The Squash Bug. (The New England Homestead for June 19, 

 1886, xx, p. 229, c. 5 — 21 cm.) 



Insects imperfectly described, and represented as girdling the 

 stalks of melon vines, are probably Anasa tristis, a species not 

 often injurious to the melon, but at times so ? as appears from 

 Miss Murtfeldt's observation of eggs upon it. 



Remedies for it: Search in the hiding plaees by day for the 

 hibernated bugs during their period for oviposition in June and 

 July; later, destroy the egg-patches on the under side of the 

 leaves ; trap the bugs with pieces of board near the hills, or 

 wilted melon leaves spread on the ground. Place ashes and salt 

 around the root stalks to prevent the injury of the bug to it. 



A New Attack on Wheat. (The Country Gentleman for June 24, 

 1886, li, p. 487, c. 2-3 — 30 cm.) 



A green larva an inch long, with brown head and twenty 

 feet, which has attacked wheat in Salem, N. Y., and in York, 

 Pa., is recognized as a saw-fly larva. The species is not identified, 

 for no known species has this habit of cutting off the heads that 

 it may feed downward on the stalk. Cepheus pygmceus, of 

 Europe, burrows into the stem. Curtis describes a saw-fly larva 

 which appeared suddenly on the heads of wheat, the description 

 of which nearly accords to this species. The habits of the larva 

 are given. 



An Unknown Grass Insect. (The Country Gentleman for July 1, 

 1886, li, p. 503, c. 1-2 — 27 cm.) 



An injury of thirty per cent of the stalks of June grass, 

 reported from Emmett, Ohio, in which the tops turn white 

 and the stalks, readily pulled from the sheath, eateu at the end — 



