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where from one to five of the larvae. They were pupating just at thia time, 
and I found among the material gathered one adult, although very 
immature. It is somewhat questionable whether any very great dam- 
age would have been done by the insects, numerous as they were, if the 
dry weather had not stunted the vines and prevented them from grow- 
ing as vigorously as they would do under ordinary circumstances. 
Certain it is that in those fields that were most heavily fertilized, and 
in which the vines were rank, the insects seem to have done little dam- 
age, and the tubers that were set were of good size and in fair numbers. 
The iusect has not been heretofore reported from New Jersey by col- 
lectors and I have no means of knowing just yet how far it is distrib- 
uted and what measures should be adopted to check it. It will cer- 
tainly be impracticable to follow the recommendation that has been 
given, to pull out the infested vines and burn them, because that would 
mean, in the fields that I examined, that the entire stand would have 
to be pulled out and destroyed. It is likely that early planting of early 
varieties, early harvesting, and then destroying the vines by tire will 
in time reduce the numbers of the pest. 
Altogether the farmers in Xew Jersey have had an extremely hard 
time of it during the seasen of 1894; all kinds of crops have suffered 
to some extent, and in many cases insects which usually do no dam- 
age have been troublesome during the present year from the fact that 
the plants have been reduced in vigor by the dry weather. Of this 
character is the injury caused during the present season by the Hessian 
fly, which seems to have damaged wheat to a considerable extent in 
some of our northen counties. 
Following the reading of his paper Mr. Smith said that the condi- 
tions of the tree and the insect which he found in Xew Jersey corre- 
sponded exactly with the conditions described by Mr. Marlatt as pre- 
vailing in Maryland. This held in the matter of the spotting of the 
leaves, in the blackening of the twigs and limbs, and also as to the 
source of the infestation. 
Mr. Southwick said that he had found at Fort Lee and also at Short 
Hills, X. J., the towers of the Cicada very abundant. He also said 
that in his experience the tibicen species was vigorously attacked by 
the English sparrow, without, however, being killed; the birds merely 
eut off various parts of the insect's body. 
Mr. Davis said that the clover- weevil fungus is not confined to this 
insect, but will develop in other species, as shown by the studies of 
various mycologists. He reported that in Michigan it was very effect- 
ive in destroying the clover- weevil larva. He stated also that the 
clover weevil had only recently been noted in Michigan, but was increas- 
ing rapidly. 
