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Las recently received from Mr. Ebrhorn specimens of the insects thus 

 named, and finds that the first is not a Ctenockiton at all, but probably 

 adactylopid, while the second is not D. iceryoides, but I), aurilanatus of 

 Maskell. The bright golden color of the latter insect and its food plant 

 (Araucaria) ought to have been sufficient guides to correctness. The 

 species, although first reported from New Zealand, is, according to 

 Mr. Maskell, probably Australian, and he thinks that Queensland was 

 probably its original habitat. 



TWO APPLE INSECTS LIABLE TO IMPORTATION. 



Among the insects which American fruit growers will have to guard 

 against with reference to their i>ossible importation into this country 

 are Cacoecia responsana and C. e.vcessana, the former an Australian, 

 and the latter a New Zealand species. Both of these insects exhibit 

 a decided preference for the apple, and the former is supposed to be 

 almost as great a pest as the codling moth, penetrating the rind of the 

 fruit and disfiguring it for dessert, although not seriously injuring it 

 for culinary purposes. The latter is a leaf roller, but also damages 

 young fruit in a rather serious way. 



A NEW DIRECT BENEFIT FROM INSECTS. 



When Kirby and Spence wrote their chapter on u Direct benefits 

 derived from insects" and recorded the use of insects for food, the use 

 of honey from bees for the same purpose, the use in medicine and the 

 arts and manufactures of blister beetles, insect galls, Coccidae furnish- 

 ing lac, wax insects, and the silkworm, the time had hardly arrived for 

 the extensive collection of ants for the manufacture of formic acid or 

 of their pupae as food for song birds, and we feel sure that they could 

 hardly have anticipated an industry which has recently sprung up both 

 in France and Pennsylvania, and which consists of the farming of spiders 

 for the purpose of stocking wine cellars, and thus securing an almost 

 immediate coating of cobwebs to new wine bottles, giving them the 

 appearance of great age. This industry is carried on in a little French 

 village in the Department of Loire, and by an imported Frenchman 

 named Grantaire on the Lancaster Pike, 4 miles from Philadelphia. 

 This Frenchman raises JEpeira vulgaris and Nephila plumipes in large 

 quantities and sells them to wine merchants at the rate of $10 per 

 hundred. 



ADDITIONAL POPULAR NAMES FOR CORYDALIS CORNUTA. 



On page 122 of Volume II, Insect Life, we gave a short list of Rhode 

 Island popular names for this insect, to which we now add the follow- 

 ing list, taken from Forest and Stream for September 25, 1884. 



