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Linn., which was feeding quite abundantly on timothy heads about Kast 
Geran June 28, 1896. 
The tar nigned ment bug (Lygus pratensis) has as Season varied its 
bill of fare on the grounds of the experiment station at Wooster by 
attacking the tender flower-buds of china asters, causing them to wither. 
The bagworm (Vhyridopteryx ephemereformis) seems to be slowly 
but steadily working northward. From a lot of larve received from 
Mr. R. H. Warder, superintendent of parks in Cincinnati, we reared in 
July a tachinid parasite, Sturmia distincta Wied. In our breeding 
cages, where no males were present, the females in two cases worked 
themselves out of their sacks from below and dropped to the ground 
before having oviposited. One of these females finally oviposited with- 
out pairing. 
The common mealy-bug (Dactylopius adonidum) was observed to be 
preyed upon by Limax campestris, which devoured both eggs and young 
larve, thus emphasizing the fact of its carnivorous tendencies, as shown 
by Mr. Webster in Insect Life (Vol. IV, p. 348, and Vol. V, p. 128). 
Besides, it seemed, in the insectary, to prefer mealy-bugs and plant- 
lice to vegetable food. 
On September 19 we received a section of Osage orange post, 143 feet 
in length and 4 inches in diameter, with the complaint that a worm 
was eating up a lot of fence posts of this kind of timber, some of these 
posts having been set in the ground, the others merely piled together. 
In the case of the latter the dust was stated to be 2 inches thick under- 
neath the pile. In the specimen section received the sapwood was 
badly eaten and tunneled by the larvee, some of these larval chambers 
extending directly into the heartwood. The section was placed in a 
breeding cage, but nothing appeared therein until the following Feb- 
ruary (February 4), when a single example of Cyllene picta Drury 
emerged. We were well aware that the borer was that of a ceram- 
bycid, but did not expect this species. From this small section there 
emerged in all 27 individuals of this species, the greatest number appear- 
ing during any one day being 4. The record of appearance of adults is 
as follows: February 4, 1; 10, 1;.138, 2; 15,1; 17,1; 19,1; 23,3; 24, 4; 
26,1; March 4,4; 6,3; 8,1; 10,1; 23,1; April 12,1; 14,1; the period 
of issuance thus covering two months and ten days. Nothing else 
appeared with these adults except a small mite, thus showing the 
absence of natural enemies. The section of wood was kept continually 
in the insectary, and, hence, under greenhouse conditions. 
Allorhina nitida Linn. is usually not abundant, at least in Ohio and 
the neighboring States to the westward. In 1896 it was reported as 
working considerable injury to tomatoes at Sheep kun, Brown County, 
in the southern part of the State. The present year it was reported as 
being very abundant at Sugar Grove, in the central portion of the 
State. 
A tachinid parasite, Huphorocera claripennis Macq., was reared from 
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