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September 1. The last beetles of the spring brood have just died, 

 possibly from a lack of fresh food more thau from old age, as I was 

 absent from home and could not give theui personal attention. The 

 probabilities are that the second brood of these beetles hibernates and 

 lays its eggs early in the season for the production of the beetles that 

 are so destructive throughout the summer. 



It will be seen from this account that G. foUacea is an all-summer 

 pest and capable of inflicting a vast amount of injury in the nursery 

 and youug orchard. 



The gentleman from whom I obtained the specimens wrote me that 

 he had tried in vain to check its ravages with pyrethrum, kerosene emul- 

 sions, Paris green, etc., in the proportions and by the methods usually 

 recommended, but that he had succeeded in destroying it without injury 

 to the trees by the use of white arsenic, 1 pound to 200 gallons of 

 water, the arsenic being first boiled in a small quantity of water and 

 then diluted to the proportions given above. 



A MAN INFESTING BOT. 



[Extracted from a paper* by Rudolph Matas, M. D.] 



On the morning of June 27, H. T. McC, an Englishman, aged 

 thirty eight, presented himself at my clinic in ward 8, Charity Hospital, 

 stating that he had arris'ed in this city one week before from an exten- 

 sive trip to Spanish Honduras, where, on or about the 11th of this month 

 (June), he had been stung, while bathing, by a peculiar fly, which was 

 well known in that country, as it was a veritable nuisance, if not a 

 scourge, because it attacked man and beast alike — the white foreigners 

 especially — and deposited its ova in the sting, wherein the "worms" 

 (larvae) developed until they attained considerable dimensions — half to 

 three-quarters of an inch in length, according to the patient's statement. 

 He further stated that he remembered the moment when the fly stung 

 him, for he heard it "buzz,'- and felt it "sting" him in three distinct 

 X)laces on his bodj', where he was sure the "worms" were now grow- 

 ing, "though they must still be quite young and small, on account of 

 the comparatively short time that they had been in the flesh" — /. e., six- 

 teen days since ova had been deposited. 



We then examined the i)atient, who, after undressing, showed us 

 three red, hard, furuncular swHlliugs, situated, one on the right side of 



* This paper was published by its author, Dr. Matas, Visitiiiir ^^llr>;ooll, Cliarity i 

 Hospital, New Orleans; Deiuoustrator of Anatomy, Medical Department, Tnlane 

 University, at New Orleans, in September, 1887, for private distribution, nnder the 

 title " Report of the case of a patient from whoso subcutaneous tissue three larvae | 

 of a species of Dcrmnfohki were removed; with remarks." Dr. Matas has had con- 

 sideral)Iccf)rresp()ndence with the Division and we may have some further remarks 

 npoa the subject in a future number. 



