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tin- Northern States, Imt Mississippi is, wc believe, tli«- farthest southern locality 
r«coriletl lor it. 
Remedy for cabbage -worms. — Mr. (ienrj^e \V. Nnt/e, of Sullivan. Iiid., writes, 
inuhrdate of Au^iist L'. 1X7!*, that he has rid his tabbage patch of worius by spray- 
ing with the following inixtiiri's: 
(hu-fouith poiiml jMtwdend alum. 
One ])ound roar>e salt. 
One )>oun(l shickcd linic 
Dissolved in one-half gallon IkM water. 
Applied at the rate of abont tlir<»- llnid (mhk es to a Inieket of wat^T. 
The rice grub beetle at electric lights in New^ Orleans. — I'nder date of Sept^Mn- 
l»er II, lHi»7, Mr. Chris. V. llaile, of New Orleans, La., writes that the ])e6tles of the 
riee grub Clialepua tra<hypif(fim, speeiniensof whieli were sent, were swarming during 
the fust week of September in great numbers about the electrie lights of his eity, 
and that the ground was covered with their dead bodies. He writes: ''They were 
swept up in piles to be carted away, and when left too long the stench was almost 
unbearable. Wheue\ er mashed on the ]>avement a large greasesj>ot was made, and 
at the street intersections, where the electric cars stopped to put otf jiassengers, the 
rails were so greasy that it was dilhi-ult to again start the cars. The beetles reap- 
peaied last night, but the swarms around the electric lights were not cpiite so dense." 
Injury by the bark-beetle, Dendroctonns rutipennis. — Under date of June 5, 1K97 
Mr. Austin Cary writes from Colebrook, N. II., that the above-mentioned species of 
scolytid bark-beetle, specimens of which he sends, has Ijeen found in sprnce timber 
in his vicinity, where it is apparently the cause of consideralde injury. It is present 
in a tract of virgin timber, upon which many trees, single and in groups, are dead; 
«»thers are .just <lying or are partially atfected. Rejiorts of injury by this species are 
comparatively rare. We have received the species from Lafayette, Ind., from Mr. 
F. M. Webster. Mr. Harrington has observed it to be very injurious to tamarack in 
Canada, and Mr. Schwarz, to the same tree in Michigan and to Engelmann's spruce 
{I'irea eniidtiianni) in tlie Wasatch Mountains of Utah. 
Injuriousness of Pieris protodice. — Specimens of the cabbage buttertly, PieriH 
proto(U(e, were received during August. lSi>7, from Dr. Kichard E. Kun/«'\ with the 
statement that the species is very injurious to seedling plants of caulitlower and 
cabbage in the Salt River Valley, in the neighborhood of Plnenix, Ariz., where it 
was reported to have destroyed between 75,0(X)and 100,000 plants. The caterpillars 
appeared to jirefer the cauliflower to the cabbage. 
Injury by the silver-pine tortricid to Douglas spruce in Oregon.— Mr. Lincoln 
Taylor, of Cottage Grove, < Meg., writes, under date ol' September 'A, that the so-calle<l 
8ilver-i)ine tortricid, r;rrt;;/fo/j/Art hiacteatnna J'ern., has lieen very injurious to the 
cones of the Douglas sj)ru<'e, I'sciidotsuga douf/Jasii, in his vicinity. Our correspond- 
ent was gathering the seed for maik«t, and found that this insect, with thi' larva- of 
a cecidomyiid lly which accomi)anied it, had injured abont one-half the present sea- 
son's croj) of st-ed. 
Heterocampa manteo on oak. — November IS, 1897, Mr. .lames M. Kelley sentto this 
oHice the larva- of lleterovampa manteo, with tlu^ report that they were destroying all 
the leaves on oak and black-jack at Damascus, Miss. In the notes of the Divisitm 
this species is recorded to attack oak, persiunuon. and walnut, larva- having b<-en 
found by Mr. Th. Pergande at ditl'erent times from June IS to September 1*9 on these 
trees in Virginia in the neighborhood of Washington. 
The malodorous carabid, Noniius pygmaeus, in Oregon. — Through the kind- 
ness ot l'r(»f. K'anisey Wright wc ha\e receixcd a specimen «>f \om\ns piffjmaens, with 
a short note on its disagneabh- odor, from Dr. A. C. Panton, of INutland. Oreg. 
A]>ropros «»f Mr. IJarrows's i)aper on the same species, in Hullctin 9 of this series, the 
following abstract is given : 
''Today 1 sent you some small beetles, which are rare in this country, but whicli 
I have never seen anywhere else; and it has occurred to me that they might be new 
