294 General Notes. [March, 
The eggs had all hatched by June 23-28; few were to be 
found at Brunswick, although the incisions made by the female 
were commonly observed. The female saw-fly makes about a 
dozen incisions in the terminal young, fresh, green shoot, some 
times in one of the side shoots next to the terminal one; judging 
by the shape of the hole the eggs are of the shape described by 
Ratzeburg, 7. e.. oval cylindrical and about 1.5 in length. 
eggs are placed in two rows, alternating, not exactly parallel, ont 
being placed a little in advance of the other. The eggs arei 
serted at the base of the fresh, soft, young, partly-developed 
leaves of the new shoot, which is usually by June 20-30 only 
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Fig. 1. | va thet 
Fic. 1.—The larch saw-fly, nat. size and enlarged. Fig. 2- 
different ages, nat, size. Miss L. Sullivan, del. 
arch worn 
the eggs causes a deformation of the shoot, W ner) SO. 
Beans being in all cases observed on one See opserved wid 
the shoot. In many cases a last year’s shoot he shoot. That 
the scars of the incisions on the concavity we ie nding 2 teti | 
incisions were made by the saw-fly was prove Z ymetimes pt 
hatched, but dead, larva in one of the holes. nds made at 
two of the leaves diein consequence of the wou 
At A nately 
After the foregoing lines were written we fortu 
