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seed or decaying oranges, on which they cluster in the cool of the morn- 

 ing, and are then readily killed in bulk by drenching them with hot 

 water or pure kerosene. 



This offers a suggestion as to the probable efficacy of a similar rem- 

 edy for the Leptocoris, although as yet no experiments have been tried 

 and no extended observations made as to its habits. 



Proconia undata in injurious Numbers. (Plate I, fig. 4.) — Aug- 

 ust 14, 1885, Dr. A. Oemler, of Wilmington Island, Georgia, wrote us of 

 an insect which was becoming very abundant and injurious to anumber of 

 different plants in his vicinity. August 29, in reply to a request, he sent 

 a number of specimens of Proconia undata, and among them one speci- 

 men of Analeises mollipes, included probably on account of its super- 

 ficial resemblance to the former species. He wrote that he observed 

 them to be more common than usual in 1884, particularly on the young 

 growth of a Black Hamburg grape-vine, and that this year they were 

 plentiful, doing considerable damage to Okra by sucking the sap from 

 its stems, and occurring also upon " mile maize.'* Writing again, Sep- 

 tember 6, he stated that one patch of Okra was nearly killed out, and 

 that there were " eight or ten specimens at a time to each plant." 



Occurrences of the Army Worm during- the Season.— 1885 

 has been a decidedly off year for Leucania unipuncta. In no case was 

 the normal second brood injurious to any extent, so far as we can learn. 

 The third brood appeared, however, in injurious numbers at Deer Park, 

 Garrett County, Maryland, damaging the oat crop to a considerable extent 

 on the farm of the ex-United States Senator, H. G. Davis, during the 

 first week in August. Either the same brood retarded, or a fourth gen- 

 eration appeared about September 18 in Sussex County, Delaware. 

 One of our correspondents, Dr.E. G. Ellegood, of Concord, writing under 

 date of September 21, says : 



"They made their appearance three days ago in a piece of low corn- 

 field in this county. In one of my professional rides yesterday I 

 came in contact with them. Though but three days in operation they 

 have utterly destroyed 8 or 10 acres of corn. The ground is covered 

 with them and with their excrementitious droppings." 



On September 2, Mr. John B. Smith, visiting Goshen, Orange County, 

 Xew York, for the purpose of studying the Onion Cut- worm (Agrotis 

 messoria), found that the Army Worm was quite abundant in the oat fields 

 near that place, so much so as to attract general notice. Eeturning to 

 the same locality on October 5, he found no traces of larvae, eggs, or im- 

 agines, and only a few pupa shells in the oat fields, but the larva? could 

 probably have been found in the neighboring grass-lands. 



One of our correspondents, Mr. M. S. Crane, of Caldwell, X. J., wrote 

 us October 13, that while sugaring for moths August 26 he counted over 

 forty Army Worm moths on his first seven baits. He has captured the 

 moths every year, but this season they were unusually abundant. No 

 damage from the worms, however, was reported from his vicinity. 



