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very limited number of parasites belonging to tlie genus Idris were 

 reared from these eggsi. The young (Ecantlius were found to be exceed- 

 ingly fond of Toxoptera. Eudryas unio: Dr. Fitch, in his third report, 

 gave the larvae of this species as injurious to the foliage of the Grape, 

 at the same time calling attention to the close resemblance between them 

 and the larvae of ^. grata. From the fact that Dr. Lintner found that 

 the larvae of E. U7iio fed upon Euphorhia coloratum, Mr. Saunders, in 

 his Insects Injurious to Fruits, first edition, page 261, considers it doubt- 

 ful if E. unio was really a grape insect. During J une we received from 

 Knox County, Indiana, specimens of the larvae of unio which were at that 

 time destroying the foliage of grapes, thus leaving no doubt as to the 

 correctness of Dr. Fitch's statement. — F. M. Webster, October 25, 1890. 



THE CODLING MOTH AS A FRIEND. 



It is very interesting to see what different views people take of the 

 same thing, according to the eff^ect it has upon their own individual in- 

 terests. Most persons would have thought that the Codling Moth was 

 to have been universally condemned as an unmitigated nuisance, but 

 this does not appear to be the case. One evening when a certain gen- 

 tleman attended a fruit-growers' meeting at the Thames, in the Auck- 

 land Province, for the purpose of giving a lecture on the Codling Moth, 

 he observed one man amongst the audience, who, after the lecture was 

 over and a general meeting was being held, was particularly eloquent 

 in denouncing the little insect. He was a fruit grower and fruit-seller, 

 having a very good orchard, and a thriving retail business in fruit. 

 Next day when passing the shop the lecturer was called in and had a 

 look at the apples, which appeared unusually fine and all perfectly 

 free from the moth. He remarked that the fruiterer need not have 

 been so bitter against a pest that certainly did not seem, judging from 

 the condition of the fruit, to be very troublesome in his orchard. The 

 retailer said he would explain it by-and by, but they would have a glass 

 of cider first. The bottle was produced, "no sooner said than done," 

 but before drinking a toast was proposed that astonished the visitor. 

 " Here's to the codling moth. Long may it live, and may its shadow 

 never grow less !" "How do you like the cider, is the flavor good^" 

 "Yes, it is splendid 5 the flavor is excellent." And now came the ex- 

 planation. This man was an old, experienced American fruit-grower, 

 and he kept his orchard well sprayed with Paris green and in conse- 

 quence of that and other precautions lost but very few of his apples 

 even cheaply, and his customers preferred giving him good prices to 

 buying other people's wormy fruit at lower rate. " Then why waste 

 them in making cider f " Oh, that is the best of it. I buy their apples 

 and make the cider from them. Have another glass ?" " No, thank 

 you ; not now I know what is in it." " In America," said the fruit mer- 

 chant, " we set about curing an evil, but here they go to meetings to 

 talk about it and abuse the Government. What you advised them to 



