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Clab reassembled at 12 m. 22d. 



Professor Atkinson spoke of some insects of Alabama. The Bud 

 worm, as it is called, though it is probably the larva of Diabrotica 12- 

 punctata, is very abundant, working in young corn. 



Flusia brassicce is very abundant. In the southern part of the State 

 it has done more injury to cabbage than Pieris. Also attacks the potato. 

 Pieris protodice does not occur in any great abundance in the southern 

 part of the State. The melon worm destroys 50 per cent, of the melons 

 in some sections. These may be destroyed by Paris green, and later 

 by kerosene emulsion. Scolytiis rugulosus occurred in the Station or- 

 chard. Thrips are very injurious to grain, and also infest the cotton 

 plant. 



Professor Cook said that Thrips were very abundant on grain in 

 Michigan. Mr. Webster said that Scolytus rugulosus had occurred this 

 season in Indiana but he had not found them capable of injuring a 

 healthy tree, only such as had suffered from diseased roots or a girdled 

 trunk were seriously attacked. Mr. Fletcher stated that Canadian 

 lumbermen told him that borers only attacked trees with " sour sap." 

 Mr. Webster said that while he believed this to be true of S. rugulosus^ 

 Xyleborus fuscatus, in June, attacked logs of both cypress and cotton- 

 wood, while in the rafts in the St. Francis Eiver, Arkansas, and did 

 serious injury by boring into the solid wood. Professor Atkinson stated 

 that a lepidopterous larva attacked the living oaks in Alabama. Miss 

 Murtfeldt thought that this season the early brood of Pieris rapce had 

 been destroyed by the winter. 



Dr. Weed read a short paper on the oviposition of Bectes spinosus in 

 Ambrosia trifida. 



Mr. Webster stated that he had usually found the species on or about 

 A. artemisicefolia. 



Professor Cook presented some notes on the insects of the year. He 

 said that Cut- worms and Saw-flies had been very injurious. The larvae 

 of JEgeria tipuliformis was attacked by a fungous growth like that at- 

 tacking the White Grub. The foliage of the quince and cherry were 

 injured by the first brood of larv8e of Cherry Slug. Eoad dust was 

 applied with excellent results. 



Dr. Weed presented a short paper on Psephenus lecontei^ which, he 

 stated, he had found on the shores of Lake Erie. 



Mr. Webster stated that he had taken what, without critical study 

 he supposed to be this species, on the shores of Chautauqua Lake, New 

 York. 



Club adjourned to meet in connection with the A. A. A. S. next year. 



F. M. Webster, 



Secretary. 



