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almost straight down and sometimes 12 to 15 inches deep and over half an inch 
wide. They apparently deposit their eggs in them, as I have seen them near their 
burrows, their bodies completely covered with little spiders that seemed ii some way 
to subsist on the parent. This spider is a powerful fellow, with vicidus eye and — 
powerful jaws. I have pinned their bodies with the tine of. a pitchfork ‘and they 
would bite so hard that I could hear their teeth grit on the fork. 
~ Ido not know whether they are poisonous or not, but I know I do not want one of 
them to bite me. They are very quick and active when they want to beso. They 
have powerful limbs and very large bodies, almost as large as some mounted speci- 
mens that I have seen of the Tarantula.—[John March, Wisconsin, April 21, 1892. 
Grasshopper Depredations in Ohio in 1891. 
I beg leave to call your attention to the depredations of grasshoppers which have 
been going on in this vicinity for several years past, and especially for the last two 
years. So great has been their destruction that my Timothy and Clover, as well as 
permanent pasture, have been destroyed root and branch on several hundred acres of 
land. The summer of 1890 all of my spring sowing of clover and timothy, about 200 
acres, was destroyed by them, and the summer of 1891 all spring sowings and other 
grasses, amounting to 500 or 600 acres, as I have stated. It is difficult to estimate 
damages, but they will run up in the thousands. I am-carrying on dairying and 
stock-raising, and it is discouraging indeed to find one’s land bare and made so by 
the ravages of the grasshoppers. My experience is the experience of many others, 
except probably not on so large a scale. I bought last season of the Nixon Nozzle 
Company, of Dayton, Ohio, a hand spraying-pump for the purpose of experimenting 
with the different preparations recommended for the destruction of insects, but to no 
purpose. I used a preparation made by the Nixon Nozzle Company; I also used Paris 
ereen, and applied on grass where the insects were plenty and where stock was not 
allowed to run. It has no perceivable effect on the hoppers. * * *—[John Ferris, 
Ohio, April 4, 1892, to F. M. Webster. 
Tin-can Remedy and Paper Wrappers for Cut-worms. 
I notice in a recent issue of INSECT LIFE you recommend the use of old tin cans for 
preventing the work of cut-worms upon tomatoes, cabbages, and other plants. I 
have tried that plan and found that in a hot sunshine it would draw the heat so as to 
kill tomato plants unless covered during the heat of the day. I then tried wrapping 
the plants from the roots to top of plant when setting with common newspaper, wrap- 
ping it around three or four times and then setting deep, so as to have the bottom of 
the paper two or three inches below the surface of the ground. {f found that this was 
a perfect protection against cut-worms and that the heat did not hurt the plants. The 
paper lasts as long as needed in this rainy climate and needs no tying, nor does it 
ever have to be removed, one operation being sufficient for the whole season, and 
you are sure there are no cut-worms inside of it, which is not the case when using 
the cans. I have only used it one year and had such good success I shall try it 
again.—[James B. Smith, North Carolina, April 9, 1892.] 
‘NOTES FROM CORRESPONDENCE. 
The new Herbarium Pest.—Mr. W. H. Evans, of Crawfordsville, Ind., wrote us 
_ March 7 that he found recently three larve of our new herbarium pest, Carphoxera 
ptelearia, on some Arizona plants of last season’s collecting. The plants attacked 
_ were Pentstemon and Castillia, and they were badly riddled. 
_ Anew Peach Pest.—Through the kindness of Mr. J. L. Hardy, of Harris County, 
% Tex., we have received specimens of a new Aspidiotus upon peach twigs, which we 
