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pink and purple. About the only preventive measure necessary 

 is to plant the corn earlier, so that it will ripen before October. 



Abundance of the Pyramidal Caterpillar, Pyrophila pyramidoides 

 Guen. This caterpillar is about one and one-half inches long, 

 green, with a yellowish stripe along each side and a whitish stripe 

 along the back, head whitish, mandibles tipped with black. The 

 last segment is thickened dorsally, making ahiiost a right angle. 



In the writer's garden these caterpillars fed upon the new 

 leaves and shoots of the pear trees and also attacked roses. 

 Specimens received from Warren on June 12th had been eating 

 pear, rose and quince. They were also found on Rosa rugosa 

 on the station grounds. 



The adult is a noctuid moth having a wing expanse of nearly 

 two inches. The front wings are dark brown marked with lines 

 and dots of paler brown and white. The rear wings are lustrous 

 and of copper red color. 



A New Forest Pest in Northern New England. During the 

 past two years the caterpillars of a moth, Heterocampa guttimtta 

 Walk., have damaged forests in Maine, New Hampshire and New 

 York. In 1907 in the state of Maine much of the forest growth 

 over large areas for a distance of forty miles was stripped, accord- 

 ing to Miss Edith M. Patch,* entomologist of the Maine Station. 

 According to Dr. E. P. Felt,t state entomologist of New York, 

 this same insect appeared in that state in 1907. The same species 

 denuded thousands of acres of hard wood trees in the White 

 Mountain region of New Hampshire in 1908, and Director E. D. 

 Sanderson of the New Hampshire Station issued a press bulletin 

 regarding the matter. It is during July and August that the 

 defoliation becomes noticeable, and several different kinds of 

 trees are attacked, though the caterpillars seem to prefer beech, 

 maple and apple foliage. 



* Bulletin 148, Maine Agr. Expt. Station, p. 262, 1907 



t Twenty-third Repcwt of N. Y. State Entomologist for 1907, p. 21. 



