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season in our trucking areas, while the cabbage worm, Pieris rape, con- 
tinues its depredations without any perceptible diminution. 
The Colorado potato beetle, Doryphora 10-lineata, has not been abun- 
dant this season; but the ‘‘ old-fashioned potato beetle,” Epicauta vit- 
tata, has been present in unusual numbers. It has done much damage 
to potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, beets, and other plants. 
I would not consider this paper complete unless I mentioned one 
more insect, that has caused more correspondence, perhaps, than all 
the others combined. I refer to that sensational, notorious “kissing 
bug.” If seen for the first time, the rhinoceros beetle, and the hickory 
horned devil (Citheronia regalis), the giant water bug, and the long- 
horned Corydalis, are all termed by the public the kissing bug. [ven 
our ordinary cockroach has not escaped this popularity; and, very 
recently, the common old tumblebng ( Copris carolina) has been accused. 
of conduct unbecoming a bug of such ancestorial sacredness. A young 
schoolma’am charges him with the serious crime of inflicting a painful 
wound, caused by a lingering pressure, culminating in a-resounding 
smack, and says she caught him in the act. 
The following paper was then presented: 
INSECTS OF THE YEAR IN OHIO. 
By F. M. WEBSTER and C. W.-MALty, Wooster, Ohio. 
Cankerworms were especially abundant in the western and northern 
sections of the State. About Cincinnati their attacks were more 
especially directed to forest trees, the elm and hackberry seeming to be 
the most generally attacked, though the maple also suffered, a condi- 
tion that from reports appeared to occur over most of the western 
area, but not in the northeastern. In some cases the only portion of 
an orchard to suffer attack was that bordering on infested woodlands. 
It seemed sometimes as though the species engaged in the ravages 
must be different from the one ordinarily attacking orchards, but of 
this we were net able to make sure. A single parasite was reared 
from material collected near Cincinnati, but only in limited numbers. 
The white grub has also been excessively abundant and destructive. 
As an instance of the good effects of fall plowing as a preventive 
measure, an intelligent farmer writes that during the first week in 
December, 1898, he broke a wide strip of timothy sod through the 
‘center of a field, but the weather prevented his finishing the remain- 
der, which was broken during the spring of the present year, and all 
planted with corn. The result is that the fall-plowed portion, running 
through the center of the field, is uninjured by attacks of the grubs, 
it being impossible to find any large number of.them there, while the 
