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to occur in New Jersey as a pest, but very early in the spring speci- 

 mens had been sent him from a greenhouse man in Morris Count} 7 . 

 There were quite a number of specimens sent, and he had been informed 

 that at various places there was a considerable amount of injury that 

 had been done and was being done by this insect. Mr. Smith said 

 he was much interested in the remarks of Mr. Sanderson concerning 

 the chimney making of the periodical Cicada. He had never seen 

 more perfect specimens than those exhibited by Mr. Sanderson, from 

 Delaware. 



Mr. Sanderson explained that these chimneys occurred only under 

 buildings. 



Mr. Scott at this point called attention to the coming meeting of 

 the Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations to 

 be held in Atlanta, Ga., during October. He extended an invitation 

 to the section of entomology and to the horticultural inspectors who 

 might be present to take part in an excursion over the State, for which 

 it was his desire to arrange. 



Mr. Quaintance referred briefly to some of the entomological fea- 

 tures in Maryland for the year. Attention was called to the straw- 

 berry beetle, which had been very abundant in the strawberry fields 

 in Maryland and had cut off a considerable quantity of the bloom. 

 The growers had estimated that from 35 to 50 per cent of the flowers 

 had thus been cut off. At Greensboro and Ridgely they had adopted 

 planting certain varieties which were very profuse bloomers, and the 

 results were that the effect of the insect was rather beneficial than 

 otherwise, as it tended to thin out the fruit, giving a better size and 

 quality. Another insect that had proven to be somewhat injurious 

 locally was the New York plum weevil. It had been reported by one 

 orchardist as attacking the opening buds in the spring and doing con- 

 siderable iniurv. Beetles were confined in breeding cao-es, and eo-o-s 

 and larva? of the insect had been secured in considerable quantity. 

 The eggs were deposited on leaves and protected by a fold. They 

 were laid in masses of from 6 to 30. The larva? inhabit the soil, 

 immediately penetrating beneath as they hatch from the egg. They 

 had been observed to feed on the roots of grass. Another insect that 

 had been locally abundant was a species of grasshopper, Melanoplus 

 Mvittatus. An outbreak of this species occurred in Washington 

 County, and it had been very injurious to clover. In one large field 

 the clover crop had been largely destroyed. Adjacent to this field was 

 a newly planted apple orchard, and the trees were doing nicely. The 

 cutting of the clover forced the grasshoppers to the apple orchard, 

 and the insects had attacked the trees, chewing the bark. In many 

 cases the trees were entirely stripped of bark. The pea louse, which 

 had been quite injurious in former years, was not now considered of 

 great importance from the fact that growers planted only early varie 



