8tt2 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
Mi- G uy of the Maine Board of Agriculture. It looks as though our hack- 
niaTark foreeta might be totally destroyed bj thi> ineeet. 
I inclose some clippings from the Home Farm referring t<» this ini 
1 al><> send you some terminal Bhoota of white pine, in which you may tind living 
specimens of ■ borer in three stages ; I suppose it is PUsoeVa ■sroei In one grove of 
white pins on my farm it OSS taken 1" per tent, of tBS leading shoot-. 
Chaklks <J. Atk: 
Grand Laks Btrkam, Mk., Fekrmmrg 27, L883L 
In September, sffcoi reoeiving yum ;e<iiie>- to >end the cocoons to Providence, I ex- 
amined them (hurriedly .and finding some detective ones concluded the whole lot was 
worthless. I went out once afterwards to e,-t BODM more, hut did not tind them. I 
now think the cocoons I had w. -re mostly sound in September or October, and possibly 
may be now, but my keeping them dry and generally warm all this time may have de- 
stroyed their vitality. Such BS they are I mail them to you herewith. 
I learned from E. C. Smith, of New Sharon, Franklin County, that the worm in 
question infested the hackmatacks in that town last year. Also from Z. A. Gilbert, 
secretary Hoard Agriculture, that iu August. 1882, he made a trip to Aroostook County. 
and. my inquiries having called his attention to the matter, he looked for indications 
of the presence of the hackmatack worm and saw none. He was acquainted with 
them at home, iu Androscoggin County. 
Very truly yours. Chas G. Atkins. 
The hackmatack iu the region near to and south and southeast of the 
liaiigeley lakes, and near Phillips, Me., were also defoliated in the early 
part of the summer of 1882, as we have been informed by Dr. H. G. 
Miller, of Providence, R. I., who went to the lakes in August. 
In the summer of 1883 we found the females laying eggs, and young 
hatched out late in June and early in July, from Brunswick to Phillips, 
about Lake Umbagog, especially at Errol, X. EL. and by the middle and 
last of July the trees were nearly stripped of their leaves throughout 
Maine, and inauy trees were fatally injured. 
IU ravages in Xeic Hampshire. — In Fraucouia, as we have been in- 
formed by Prof. W. W. Bailey, of Brown University, Providence, the 
hackmatacks were stripped of their leaves about the middle of July, 
1 882, the smaller trees suffering most. The trees were observed by him 
August 10. We noticed at Errol, on L^mbagog Lake, numerous trees 
which had been killed by the worms, and from the number of worms 
seen July 4th do not doubt that many trees in that section were at least 
partly stripped a week or two later. 
Its appearance in Massachusetts. — We learn from Mr. Andrew Xichols 
that the Europeau larches were, in 18S2, attacked by " worms'' iu the 
vicinity of Danvers, Mass. En July, 1883, the worms abounded on the 
same trees, specimens being sent us by Mr. Xichols. We observed worms 
at work in July, 1883, on the Europeau larch at Lawrence, Mass., and 
they were also destructive at Danvers. Mass. Prof. 0. S. Sargent, di- 
rector of the Arnold Arboretum, Brookliue, Mass.. and special agent of 
the United States Census, Forestry Division, writes us as follows : 
I have not heard of auy injury to our native hackmatacks. Three or four years ago, 
however, I noticed that specimens ol the European larch in this immediate neigh- 
borhood were suffering from the attacks of a larva, which I gathered and submitted 
t<«l>r. Bftgen. I inclose his note upon the subject. 
