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pupa, and until the moth would naturally have emerged had the 
pupa remained healthy and unparasitized. 
It will be noted that the parasites not designated by the asterisks, 
and which are therefore to be considered as of some importance in 
effecting the control of the moth, form, when taken together, a perfect 
sequence, and that every stage of the moth from the newly deposued 
egg to the pupa is subjected to attack. It is furthermore of interest 
to note in this connection that, so far as may be determined from the 
scanty information available, all of these parasites are present in more 
Of less efficient abundance within a limited area in the vicinity of 
Tokyo, from which a part, and presumably the greater part, of the 
material was collected for exportation. 
PAB LSITISW I >F THE QIPS1 MOTE I N Rl SSIA. 
The earliest first-hand knowledge of the gipsy moth and its para- 
sites in Russia was secured as the result of the visit paid to that 
country by the senior author in the spring of 1007. Through his 
instrumentality several of the Russian entomologists were interested 
in the parasite-introduction work to such a practical extent as to 
collect or cause to he collected and forwarded to America several 
small and a few large shipments of the eggs, caterpillars, and pupa 4 
of both the gipsy moth and the brown-tail moth. The difficulties 
attending the importation of material from Russia proved to be con- 
siderably more real and less easily surmount able than those which 
were so successfully overcome in the instance of the Japanese ship- 
ments, and for the most pari the Russian material was of more interest 
from a technical than from an economic standpoint by the time it 
arrived at the laboratory. 
From a technical standpoint it was exceedingly interesting and 
valuable, since there wore found to be present in the boxes of young 
gipsy-moth caterpillars the cocoons of several species of hymenop- 
terous parasites which had either not been received from other sources 
or which were Dot known to be sufficiently abundant in any other 
part of Europe to make possible their collection in large quantities. 
Prof. Kincaid's successful prosecution of the Japanese work encour- 
aged his selection as the best and most experienced agent available 
for the decidedly more difficult proposition of visiting Russia and 
attempting to secure an adequate supply of the several species of 
parasites w hich could only be secured in that country to advantage, 
so far as could be determined from the information then at hand. 
The manner in which he was impressed by the gipsy-moth situa- 
tion which he encountered there is best described in the following 
extracts from his Letters, in the course of which occasional compari- 
sons are made between Russian and Japanese conditions. 
