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two from the ear, and in spite of the fact that the specimens had 

 been in press a week before they were forwarded. Mr Taylor 

 also stated that these galls, when laid upon the table, jumped around 

 more or less as a result of larval activities. The single chamber in 

 the gall, according to Mr Taylor, contains a large, white, legless 

 larva, its anterior extremity being attached to the inner wall. This 

 species has been reported from New York State, though the identity 

 of the eastern gall with the Californian deformity originally 

 described by Mr Edwards is questioned (see William Beuten 

 mueller, Amer. Mus. Xat. Hist. 1910, 28:125). 



Two-spotted ladybeetle ( A d a 1 i a bipunctata Linn.) . 

 This small ladybeetle was extremely abundant on a Norway maple 

 at Nassau, which appeared to be only moderately infested with 

 Chaitophorus aceris Linn. Scattering colonies of this 

 plant louse were to be seen upon most of the lower leaves at least, 

 and the grubs of this ladybeetle were commonly found, there being 

 on July 7th, two or three partly grown grubs or pupae on most of 

 the lower leaves. The injury by the plant louse was so reduced 

 that there was practically no dropping of leaves in spite of the 

 extremely dry weather of the last three weeks or thereabouts. This 

 ladybeetle was also abundant though not quite so evident on apple 

 and cherry trees, both of which were somewhat infested by plant 

 lice. 



This beneficial form was likewise quite abundant June 10th at 

 Mount Vernon. One sugar maple was seen with seven or eight 

 pupal skins or pupae on one leaf. A Norway maple in Washington 

 Park, Albany, observed the nth, had many of these beneficial in- 

 sects upon the leaves, one, two or more grubs on individual leaves 

 being not uncommon. 



Two-spotted Anomala (Anomala b i 11 o t a t a Gyll.) . A 

 specimen of this southern form, listed as occurring in New Jersey 

 and Indiana, was taken in Albany from a box of presumably New 

 Jersey strawberries. This species has not been recorded from New 

 York State, though it may possibly occur in the extreme southern 

 or southwestern section. This record is of interest mainly as an 

 illustration of the effect commerce may have upon the distribution 

 of insects. 



Mosquito control. The interest in this phase of applied en- 

 tomology continues, the shore communities being especially active. 

 The village of Rye, as a result of the excessive abundance of salt 



