60. 
Mr. Webster mentioned a serious injury by the onion thrips in Ohio 
during the present year. 
Mr. Quaintance stated that in the case of this insect he had found a 
proprietary insecticide ‘‘ Rose leaf.” containing considerable nicotine, to 
be the best remedy. 3 
Mr. Pettit stated that the numbers of the onion thrips in Michigan 
had been greatly reduced by the multiplication of a gregarinid parasite. 
Mr. Felt had found a solution of Ivory soap, 1 pound to 5 gallons 
water, to be an effective remedy for thrips. 
Mr. Kirkland mentioned an attack by Spilosoma virginica on the 
onion fields of Revere, Mass., in 1892, which was effectually combated 
by the use of kerosene emulsion. 
Mr. Felt then read the following: 
NOTES OF THE YEAR FOR NEW YORK. 
By E.-P. Fett, Albany, N. Y. 
The present season has been so busy that there has been little time 
to go over the summer’s records in the manner I like, even before pre- 
senting notes on insects of interest. This brief paper will deal with 
only a few of the more important records. The larva of the willow 
butterfly, Luvanessa antiopa, has been the subject of considerable com- 
plaint from various sections of the State. An interesting attack on 
sugar beets was recently brought to notice. It was the work of Systena 
frontalis, though S. hudsonias may also have been implicated. The 
beetles had evidently bred beside the patch (where they were found in 
great numbers at the time of my visit to the locality), and then invaded 
the field, riddling the leaves and giving the infested patch a brownish, 
ragged appearance. The pest was quickly conquered by spraying with 
Paris green. Another insect which has attracted considerable notice, 
is the so-called *‘ kissing bug,” and upon which littie comment is neces- 
sary, save that several cases of what I think must have been this 
insect’s work were brought to my notice. 
FOREST TENT-CATERPILLAR. 
In the early summer the ravages of this caterpillar, Clisiocampa diss- 
tria, attracted unusual attention. In certain localities the injury was 
probably greater than in previous years, as is illustrated by the fol- 
lowing vivid account by the Rey. H. U. Swinnerton, Cherry Valley, 
N. Y.: “Stopping trains is not a circumstance to what we have here 
in the way of stopping things with worms. We would stop the prog- 
ress of the age if it got across the way our worms were going.” He 
then proceeds to narrate how the train he was aboard was stalled three 
times between two Stations about 8 miles apart. The sections suffering 
most were mainly in the Catskill Mountains and vicinity and on the 
borders of the Adirondacks, though in portions of Otsego County the 
