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meaning a shriveled and monkey-faced old woman. Its singular 

 appearance is described and its habits and food-plants given — the latter, 

 apple, cherry, plum, and some of the forest trees. 

 [For an extended notice of this insect, see pp. 183-192 of this Report.] 



An Ichneumonized Caterpillar. Interesting Case of Parasitism. 

 (Country Gentleman, for September 27, 1888, liii, p. 725, c. 4 — 20 cm.) 



A caterpillar taken from a hop-vine and sent from Wabash, Ind., for 

 name and other information, is one of the Sphinges, too much changed 

 for positive identification, but probably, Darapsa Myron (Cram.), a com- 

 mon gravevine-caterpillar which, after reaching maturity, may have 

 wandered to hops. The cocoons covering its body were probably those 

 of Apayiteles congregatus (Say) ; but instead of giving out their Micro- 

 gaster ichneumon, through a nicely-fitting hinged lid, a minute Chalcid 

 had emerged from each cocoon through an irregular hole eaten in the 

 side, presenting an interesting case of secondary parasitism. The 

 Chalcid has not been determined. 



Thousand-Legged Worms. (Country Gentleman, for September 27, 

 1888, liii, p. 725, c. 4 — 10 cm.) 



Worms destroying geraniums by eating their roots, at Cape May, N. J., 

 are Julus cceruleocinctus (Wood). These thousand-legged worms are 

 difficult to kill when buried in the ground. Applications recommended 

 are lime-water as strong as may be safely made, soot applied to the sur- 

 face, and nitrate of soda to be followed by watering, or to be used in 

 solution. Possibly quassia water might make the roots distasteful to 

 them. 



Bee-Keeper's Guide. (Country Gentleman, for September 27, 1888, 

 liii, p. 727, c. 2 — 13 cm.) 



Notices the Manual of the Apiary of Professor A. J. Cook, just pub- 

 lished, in its thirteenth edition, which has been entirely rewritten, 

 greatly enlarged, and much improved. Some of the new features intro- 

 duced in this edition are noticed. It has been pronounced the best book 

 on bees ever published. 



Yellow-Necked Apple-Tree Caterpullar. (Country Gentleman, for Octo- 

 ber 4, 1888, liii, p. 743, c. 4 — 27 cm.) 



Caterpillars sent from New York city, as devastating apple trees, are 

 Datana ministra (Drury). The caterpillar is described, and its feeding 

 habits, its injuries, its food-plants and its history given. Remedy — cut- 

 ting off the branch on which the colony is clustered and crushing. 



The Cow-Fly, Horn-Fly, or Texan-Fly. (Country Gentleman, for Octo- 

 ber 11, 1888, liii, p. 759, c. 2-3 — 36 cm.) 



Examples of the cow-fly, noticed in the Country Gentleman of Septem- 

 ber twentieth, page 705, have been received from Kenneth Square, Pa. 

 The species is unknown to me and is reported as unknown to the Ento- 

 mological Department at Washington. It has been submitted to Baron 

 Osten Sacken, of Germany. Its habits as gleaned from different sources 

 are given. It seems to have been first noticed in Chester Co., Pa., in 1886. 



