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the Northern States, but Mississippi is, we believe, the farthest southern locality 
_recorded for it. 
Remedy for cabbage worms.—Mr. George W. Nutze, of Sullivan, Ind., writes, 
under date of August 2, 1879, that he has rid his cabbage patch of worms by spray- 
ing with the following mixtures: 
One-fourth pound powdered alum, 
One pound coarse salt. 
One pound slacked lime. 
Dissolved in one-half gallon hot water. 
Applied at the rate of about three fluid ounces to a bucket of water. 
The rice grub beetle at electric lights in New Orleans.— Under date of Septem- 
ber 14, 1897, Mr. Chris. V. Haile, of New Orleans, La., writes that the beetles of the 
rice grub Chalepus trachypygus, specimens of which were sent, were swarming duripg 
the first week of September in great numbers about the electric lights of his city, 
and that the ground was covered with their dead bodies. He writes: ‘‘ They were 
swept up in piles to be carted away, and when left too long the stench was almost 
unbearable. Whenever mashed on the pavement a large greasespot was made, and 
at the street intersections, where the electric cars stopped to put off passengers, the 
rails were so greasy that it was difficult to again start the cars. The beetles reap- 
peared last night, but the swarms around the electric lights were not quite so dense.” 
Injury by the bark-beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis.—Under date of June 5, 1897 
Mr. Austin Cary writes from Colebrook, N. H., that the above-mentioned species of 
scolytid bark-beetle, specimens of which he sends, has been found in spruce timber 
in his vicinity, where it is apparently the cause of considerable injury. It is present 
in a tract of virgin timber, upon which many trees, single and in groups, are dead; 
others are just dying or are partially affected. Reports of injury by this species are 
comparatively rare. We have received the species from Lafayette, Ind., from Mr. 
¥.M. Webster. Mr. Harrington has observed it to be very injurious to tamarack in 
Canada, and Mr. Schwarz, to the same tree in Michigan and to Engelmann’s spruce 
(Picea engelmanni) in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. 
Injuriousness of Pieris protodice.—Specimens of the cabbage butterfly, Pieris 
protodice, were received during August, 1897, from Dr. Richard E. Kunzé, with the 
statement that the species is very injurious to seedling plants of cauliflower and - 
cabbage in the Salt River Valley, in the neighborhood of Phoenix, Ariz., where it 
was reported to have destroyed between 75,000 and 100,000 plants. The caterpillars 
appeared to prefer the cauliflower to the cabbage. 
Injury by the silver-pine tortricid to Douglas spruce in Oregon.—Mr. Lincoln 
Taylor, of Cottage Grove, Oreg., writes, under date of September 3, that the so-called 
silver-pine tortricid, Grapholitha bracteatana Fern., has been very injurious to the 
cones of the Douglas spruce, Pseudotsuga douglasii, in his vicinity. Our correspond- 
ent was gathering tke seed for market, and found that this insect, with the larvee of 
a cecidomyiid fly which accompanied it, had injured about one-half the present sea- 
son’s crop of seed. 
Heterocampa manteo onoak.—November 18, 1897, Mr. James M. Kelley sent to this 
office the larve of Heterocampa manteo, with the report that they were destroying all 
the leaves on oak and black-jack at Damascus, Miss. In the notes of the Division 
this species is recorded to attack oak, persimmon, and walnut, larve having been 
found by Mr. Th. Pergande at different times from June 18 to September 29 on these 
treesin Virginia in the neighborhood of Washington. 
The malodorous carabid, Nomius pygmaeus, in Oregon.—Through the kind- 
ness of Prof. Ramsey Wright we have received a specimen of Nomius pygmaeus, with 
a short note on its disagreeable odor, from Dr. A. C. Panton, of Portland, Oreg. 
Apropros of Mr. Barrows’s paper on the same species, in Bulletin 9 of this series, the 
following abstract is given: 
‘“Today I sent you some small beetles, which are rare in this country, but which 
I have never seen anywhere else; and it has occurred to me that they might be new 
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