630 The American Naturalist. [July, 
A late number of the Proceeds. Phila. Acad. contains an anatomical 
description of Tarsius fuscus, by Dr. Harrison Allen. The author de- 
scribes the superficies, auricles, rugee, bones and muscles and compares 
them with the account of the corresponding parts in the allied species 
Tarsius tarsius as given in Burmeister’s monograph. Dr. Allen goes 
into some detail which is lacking in Burmeister’s paper, notably full 
descriptions of the teeth, with figures ; and notes on the mechanism of 
the limbs. (Proceeds., Phila., Acad., 1897.) 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
Miss Ormerod’s Report.—A perusal of Miss Ormerod’s recent 
report on the injurious insects of Great Britain for 1896, shows that the 
insect pests on the other side of the Atlantic differ but little from their 
cousins here in their methods of attack. In fact, in many instances they 
are identical, portions of the report treating of the codlin moth ( Carpo- 
capsa pomonella), Asparagus beetle (Crioceris asparagi) and several 
other only too common American insects. There are numerous injurious 
insects, however, at present confined to the Old World, many of which 
in time are likely to gain foothold here, and against the introduction of 
which we cannot be too careful. Notice the devastation wrought by the 
common cabbage butterfly (Pieris rape) which in a few years after its 
introduction had spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and yet in 
England it is usually considered as of minor importance compared 
with its larger relative Pieris brassice. The gypsy moth is another 
example of the alarming spread of an insect in a new country when 
unchecked by its natural enemies. Hundreds of thousands of dollars 
have been spent by Massachusetts in an endeavor to eradicate it after 
it had gotten a strong foothold, all of which might have been saved 
had the attempt been made in time.. And now according to the news- 
papers another undesirable emigrant has arrived on the scene in the 
form of the “brown tailed moth” and established itself in the. very 
midst of the gypsy moth infested region in astrip a “ mile long by half 
a mile wide ” in which it has “ stripped the most of the fruit and many 
of the shade trees.” The insect from its life history would seem to be 
an easy enemy to fight and should it be as dangerous as reported will 
probably be stamped out with little trouble unless it has a greater 
range than was supposed. But if the few people who noticed it in pre- 
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