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freqiientlY fly into houses late in Tvinter and in early spring, but are seldom seen 

 after June. During tliis season they pay almost nightly visits to such households 

 as are not protected by screens. When splitting fire-wood they are often found col- 

 lected by the dozen in hollow places in the wood. He has observed them with 

 snouts buried in the leaf stems of sweet potato and grapes. Spraying with London 

 purple produced good results. 



New Food-plant for Sphingicampa bicolor. — Mr. George H. Berry, of Cedar 

 Rapids, Iowa, informs us that he has found the larva of this Ceratocampidmoth feed- 

 ing in numbers upon the Kentucky Coffee Tree ( Crymnocladus canadensis) . The species 

 is recorded only upon Gleditschia. 



The Horn Fly in Oklahoma. — Dr. J. C. Neal, Director of the Agricultural Exper- 

 iment Station, Stillwater, Okla., notifies us, under date of October 8, that the Horn 

 Fly made its appearance in that vicinity about September 1 of the present year. 



Another "Weeping Tree." — Dr. Xeal also informs usinthe conununicationabove 

 mentioned that two ^'raining trees" have recently been found on the bank of a lit- 

 tle stream near Stillwater. One is a large Cottonwood and the other a Box-elder. 

 A constant shower fell all day, showing plainly in the sun light like a veritable rain- 

 fall. Dr. Xeal visited the trees and captured some of the insects discharging the 

 liquid and sent them to us. The insect was, as in many other cases, Proconia undata 

 Fab. 



The Leopard Moth and its European Enemies. — Mr. Herman Meeske, of Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., has called our attention to the fact that Zeuzera jyyrina is by no means as 

 abundant in Europe as it has already become in the vicinity of Brooklyn, and he 

 suggests the desirability of importing European parasites. He deprecates the unre- 

 stricted importation of living pupae of European species by collectors, and justly 

 says: "What would people think if an individual, for his own pleasure, should im- 

 port the cholera germ?" 



Injury to Sorghum Tips. — An Arkansas correspondent, Mr. W. C. Brass, has 

 mailed us, under date October 17, specimens of sorghum tips badly damaged by a 

 long-horned grasshopper, Orclielimum glahberimum, which has the habit of puncturing 

 pithy stalks of different plants for the purpose of laying its eggs. A ready remedy 

 for this insect will be found in burning infested canes with the eggs contained in 

 them. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



FIRST LARVAL STAGE OF THE PEA WEEVIL. 



Under this caption we published, upon page 392 of volume IV, a short 

 account of the eggs and first larva of Bruclius pisi, comparing them 

 with those of the Bean Weevil treated upon page 301 of the same vol- 

 ume. The figure prepared to accompany this note on page 392 was 

 inadvertently omitted and is given herewith. It indicates aycII the 

 shortness of the postembryonic legs as compared with those of the Bean 

 Weevil and the differences in the peculiar spinous processes of the pro- 

 notum. It also shows the mines exceptionally made by the young- 

 larva in the pod itself before entering the individual peas. It will be 

 understood that the section of the pod shown in the upper right-hand 

 corner of the figure is seen from the exterior, while the section shown 

 immediately beneath it is seen from the interior of the pod. 



