NOTES OF OBSERVATIONS 
27. Eriocampa adumbrata. Pear Tree Slug Worm. Mr. 
Malcolm Dunn mentions that the Pear Tree Slug, which last year did 
much damage in the district round Dalkeith, has been scarcely noticed 
this season, and that the easily applied remedies of a dusting of 
Eriocampa adumbrata. 
caustic lime, or a heavy syringing of the trees with strong soapsuds, 
are generally very effective in getting rid of this pest. Mr. Pi. Service 
notes that the insect sometimes appears in destructive abundance near 
Maxwelltown, making an unsightly mess of Pear, Cherry, and Plum 
trees, in the nurseries, hut that it appears of very uncertain occurrence, 
in some years being totally absent. A very few of the larvae were 
observed on Espalier Pears at Maldon this year, hut not until the 
autumn. Mr. Fitch mentions that in previous years they have usually 
been exceedingly abundant in his garden, the foliage of the Pear and 
Cherry trees often assuming quite a scorched appearance from the 
ravages of the larvae. 
NeMATUS IilBKSII. 
28. Nematus Ribesii. Gooseberry Sawfly. This appears to 
have been unusually prevalent and injurious at all the points from 
