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hunting for and feeding on injurious insects, coursing over the ground or 

 climbing trees for their capture, whence they are known as " caterpillar 

 hunters." 



[The Angoumois Moth.] (Orange County Farmer, for July 6, 

 1893, xji, p. 4, c. 5— 10 cm.) 



Corn received from Dr. Collier of the New York State Agricultural 

 Station — the seed from which it was grown said to have been received from 

 Port Jervis, N. Y., and thought to have been infested, shows the work of 

 the above-named insect, Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier). From the statement, 

 it can not be determined where the corn became infested. 



The remedy for the insect is the vapor of bisulphide of carbon in a close 

 bin or vessel. 



[The Wheat-Midge in Central New York.] (Albany Evening 

 Journal, for July 10, 1893, p. 8, c. 9 — 9 cm.) 



The wheat-midge is reported from Onondaga county, but not in numbers 

 that threaten much harm, now that the wheat is already hardening. 

 Attacks by the insect in 1884 and in 1854 in New York State are referred to, 

 and also the injury it has been causing for several years in Nova Scotia. 



The Wheat-Head Army -Worm. (Country Gentleman, for July 



13, 1893, lviii, p. 539, c. 2 — 20 cm.) 



Caterpillars which were sent from Chelton Hills, Pa., as being destructive 

 to fields of timothy, are those of Leucania albilinea, noticed in the Country 

 Gentleman, for June 28, p. 508, as " A Caterpillar on Rye." Also occurs on 

 wheat. Abundant in the Western States. Not unusual in New York (Fourth 

 Report on the Insects of New York, p. 56). Habits little known. Infested 

 fields should be thoroughly plowed and raked over in the autumn. 



The Zebra Caterpillar. (Country Gentleman, for July 13, 1893, 



lviii, p. 539, c. 2, 3 — 18 cm .) 



The caterpillar feeding on the leaves and pods of pease in Albany, N. Y., 

 is Mamestra picta. It is a general feeder on garden plants, preferring those 

 of the Cruciferce and Leguminosce. The mature caterpillar is briefly de- 

 scribed. It would be unsafe to apply arsenical poisons if the caterpillars eat 

 into the pods. Picking them off by hand or shaking them from the vines 

 would be a safer method. 



Wheat-Weevil. (Country Gentleman, for July 13, 1893, lviii, p. 

 540, c. 2 — 6 cm.) 



A wheat-bin infested with weevil the preceding year, might be fumi- 

 gated, if tight, with sulphur. When attacking the .wheat, the weevil may 

 be killed with the vapor of bisulphide of carbon. 



