424 General Notes. 
ing and description, but several-celled. 
ENTOMOLOGY. : 
THE SPRUCE-BUD Tortrix!—The habits of this insect while m 
confinement were first studied by Professor C. H. Fernald, 
Maine State Agricultural College, Orono, Me., and his accol® — 
published in the American NATURALIST for January, 
coast of Maine in Bulletin 7 of- the United States £ 
logical Commission, we refer to this insect, which we were 
to identify, as, after repeated search in the latter part ° 
F 7 mer, we failed to discover 
r ges. In 
inquiries and field-work carried on in June and Je y, P ak 
ferent parts of Maine, we now have little doubt ee State 
destruction of spruces and firs along the coast o w 
mainly due to the attacks of this insect. forest tri 
The different climatic causes sry to destroy [or 
general, would, in the present case, have inj tructi 
wood trees, as well as serves and firs, and the dest™ 
have been general; whereas the trees have been kil! aity 
pillar which we have never found upon pines for es 
spruce, fir, and occasionally the hemlock and 
trees, or clumps of trees, were attacked, whether pe? 
posed situations or in hollows ; occasionally from S¥ 
worms seem to have increased and spread from y 
all the trees in localities several square miles ae 
killed. Moreover, as we have seen in the oie giley) % 
_1Bxtracted from the report of the Entomologist (Pro e 
partment of Agriculture for 1883. . 
