808 General Notes. [August, 
therefore greatly to be feared that this new pest will become a 
serious enemy to successful wheat raising, especially as from a 
large number I have reared but a single parasite, which as yet is 
undetermined. Even if it becomes very destructive, it is more 
than probable that parasites will soon attack it, and that, like the 
joint-worm (/sosoma hordet), it will after a time become powerless 
to work very serious mischief. 
The remedies for this evil are very apparent. As the insects 
are in the straw from the date of cutting till the following May, 
it becomes very apparent that by cutting the wheat high, in which | 
case nearly all the insects will remain in the stubble, and then | 
burning the latter, all these will be destroyed. In case there is | 
much green vegetation, it would be better to cut the stubble low | 
before burning. If short pieces of the straw are found in the grain, 
these should be cleaned out and burned. From experiments 
made in the laboratory, by burying the straws in sand, and the 
insects still coming out, I doubt if plowing under will prove a 
very thorough remedy. As these have good fully-developed 
wings, rotation of crops would not serve as well to protect against 
this insect as it would in case of J. tritici and 7. grande. i 
The drawings were made from life by my special student in 
a boy P. Gillett—Prof. A. F. Cook, Agricultural Coll., 
y , Mich, 
Entomotocicat News.—The Rev. J. A. Marshall publishes in 
the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, issued 
April 30, Part 1 (280 pages) of a detailed monograph of British 
Braconide. T 
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