[NSECT EAPPENINGS IN NEW JERSEY IN I 31 



-The catalpa sphinx (Ceratomia catalpa Bdv.) now covers about the 

 entire State of New Jersey, positive records being absent from one 

 county only. It always seems to be worse the second year of its 

 appearance in a giver locality, and it has been about as troublesome 



in nurseries as anywhere. 



Another failure to establish the Chinese mantid (Paratenodera 

 sinensis Sauss.) in New Jersey is to be recorded. A large number of 

 egg masses were tied out in an ideal location on the southeastern slope 

 of the Orange Mountains, and most of these fell a prey to field mice. 

 It seems curious that the insects should do so well near Philadelphia 

 and that they should fail so uniformly in all sections of New Jersey. 



The Asiatic ladybird (ChUocorus similis Rossi ) has not been found 

 again, although the orchard in which the lots sent up from Georgia 

 three years ago were freed still stands tm-prayed — -what is left of it. 



Although not strictly entomological, mite infestation should be 

 noted as among the most important happenings of the season. Trees 

 and shrubs of the most diverse kinds were infested and a great deal 

 of foliage was disfigured, if not seriously injured. 



MISCELLANEOUS INSECT NOTES FROM MARYLAND FOR 1906. 

 By A. B. Gahan and <;. P. Weldon, College Park, M<L 



Present indication- are that the fruit growers of Maryland may 

 have another serious scale pest to contend with in the near future. 

 We refer to the terrapin scale (Eulecanium nigrofasdatum Per- 

 gande). From different localities in Washington County have come 

 three complaints of very serious injury to peach trees by this scale. 

 All told, several hundred trees have been killed or badly damaged 

 by it. The grower- report that the lime— ulphur-salt treatment is 

 not effective against tin- pest, it being no uncommon thing to see 

 full-grown scales in midsummer with a coating of the -pray mixture 

 .-till adhering to their back-, but apparently none the worse for it. 



A more or less careful study of the life history of the insect was 

 made at the Station the past season, and it brought out the following- 

 fact-: The scales pass the winter a- immature female-, finishing their 

 growth in the spring. The eggs are deposited beneath the female 

 scale, and are very numerous. Hatching begin- about June 1 in our 

 latitude, and crawling young may be found from that time until the 

 second week in Augu-t. The young apparently all go to the leaves 

 immediately after hatching, and there settle along the midrib- and 

 veins, where they remain for a period of from -i.\ to eight weeks. 

 The male- then emerge, winged, while the female- migrate back to 

 the twig-, settling along the under side o\' the twig- and branches. 

 This migration of the female 1 - began about July 20, and by September 



