88 bulletin no. 4, division of entomology. 



Another East Indian Cotton Worm Eemedy. 



With regard to sending to your Department specimens of insects 

 which injure the cotton crop in Burma, I regret I cannot do it at once, 

 as most of the cotton fields in Burma have been left waste for the last 

 two or three years, on account of disturbances between the king of 

 Burma and Shan chiefs. At such times the cultivators are not safe, 

 being every now and then attacked by the enemy and looted, but I will 

 keep in mind, and will endeavor as soon as an opportunity is offered to 

 procure the specimens of injurious insects which attack the cotton and 

 forward the same to you as desired. 



I will send you shortly another remedy for injurious insects ; it is the 

 bark of a tree that natives soak in ajar of water for twenty-four hours, 

 after which the water is sprinkled on the plants. I am told that 

 by such process insects are killed, and the smell of the water on the 

 plants prevents them going near to the plants any further. I shall send 

 the seed also with the bark, that on trial of the experiment, if success- 

 ful, you may try the seed for growing the tree. — [0. Lucas, Rangoon, 

 Burma, January 29, 1883. 



Possible northern Food-plant of Aletia. 



Referring to mine of 17th ultimo, and in reply to yours of 13th instant, 

 I regret to state that the larva unknown described to you as feeding on 

 Hibiscus trionum, disappeared during the night of the 23d ultimo, before 

 which time I had discovered two similar, save a black dorsal line, 

 each upon flower spike of Lupinus pilosus. A drawing was sent to the 

 Eutomological Society of Ontario, and a description. I have to state 

 that larvae similar in size and color to Figs. 4 and 5 of Plates V and VI, 

 page 348, Agricultural Report for 1879, were seen by me in my garden 

 at Riverside in August of 1879 — supposition, from eggs attached to 

 botanical debris obtained near Washington, perhaps leaves and fruit 

 of Callirrhoe pedata obtained from back of Mr. Gray's, 204 Seventh street 

 southwest — crawling upon and imbedded in plants of Onaphalium uligi- 

 nosumli. (Marsh Cudweed), a common weed in this district, i. e., Riverside. 

 I sent you a specimen of the plant from my garden. — [Alfred H. Moore, 

 'lor onto, Out, October 19, 1883. 



Pari a aterrima Injuring Strawberries. 



I sent you some larvae of the strawberry crown-borer in a potato this 

 morning. I have a few more now and will send them the same way, ex- 

 cept that I will inclose some damp soil with them. I think they do not 

 eat now, for I find them in a little cavity in the earth, not far from the 

 surface. I have been acquainted with this pest for ten years, and I re- 



