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the larvae feed on the foliage of the Douglas spruce and do much harm. 

 In both cases where the insect was observed in large numbers the pupae 

 were found to be parasitized by an ichneumonid, Theronia fulvescens. 

 The descent of the full-grown larvae from trees 100 feet high by a silken 

 thread was described. 



August 22, specimens of this insect were received at this office from 

 Mr. H. D. Langille, of Mount Hood, Oreg., with a letter dated August 

 12, which stated that the butterfly appeared that day at Cloud Cap 

 Inn, at the snow line on Mount Hood, in immense numbers. Two years 

 ago the insect came about the mountains in large numbers, seeming to 

 hover about the evergreen trees mostly, and the next year whole acres 

 of the nut pine {Pinus monticola) began to die, presumably on account 

 of the work of the larvae of this butterfly. 



A week later specimens of the same insect were received from Mrs. 

 W. J. Hess, of Goldendale, Wash., with the statement that it made its 

 appearance during 1895 in the pine timber on the mountains near Gold- 

 endale in great numbers, in some places falling into the small streams 

 and damming them. Some hogs pasturing in the timber died, and, 

 upon examination, their stomachs were found to be packed with the 

 "moths." It was noticed that year that the pine trees where the 

 11 moths " were bore no cones, while a few trees on the prairie had them 

 as usual. The trees this year (1896), according to Mrs. Hess, were 

 infested with a small green worm, undoubtedly the larvae of this but- 

 terfly. For about a month in midsummer the butterflies were noticed 

 on the prairie flying southward high in the air. 



RECENT DAMAGE BY THE STRAWBERRY WEEVIL. 



During May of the past year, too late as usual for remedial experi- 

 mentation, complaints were received of injuries by the strawberry wee- 

 vil {Anthonomus signatus Say) from Maryland and Virginia. 



May 2, Mr. G. W. Donaldson, who has kindly kept me informed in 

 previous years of the invasions of this destructive little beetle in his 

 neighborhood, formerly called Dixie Landing, and now known by the 

 somewhat more euphonious title of Cherry Dale, reported the insect in 

 injurious abundance on his farm and on those of his neighbors who 

 grow the u Jessie" and other stamin ate varieties of strawberry. Some 

 of these farmers have several acres in strawberries and depend chiefly 

 upon this crop for a livelihood. 



May 9, specimens of strawberry buds showing injury by this species 

 were received from Mr. Eichard Mason, Marshall, Va., with the report 

 that nearly his entire crop had been destroyed the past two springs. 

 In 1895 he sprayed with a solution of whale-oil soap with no effect, and 

 the past season with a solution of sulphate of copper and lime, also with 

 kerosene emulsion, so he writes, but without any apparent effect. 



In the latter days of May Mr. James S. Eobinson, horticulturist 

 of the Maryland Experiment Station, called at this office for advice 



