at any time. As we have been disturbed quite a considerable for the past two years, I think that the people of Providence ought to try to prevent the insect from destroying trees throughout the State." (C. E. Price, 179 Sherburn Street.) OCCURRENCE IN OTHER STATES. (See map of New England States, and of Infested district around Stonington, Conn). Connecticut A colony of the moths was discovered last year in the neighborhood of Stonington. Fortunately that State has a standing fund for dealing with insect pests, and prompt measures were at once taken to exterminate it. It is located in a section of brush-land where it is rather difficult to find, but on the other hand the infested area is very small, covering approximately only one square mile, and it is also hedged about by water in such a way that the moth can escape only in one direction. A letter from Dr. Britton, quoted on page 70, says that he has the situation well in hand and hopes to exterminate the colony in the near future. New Hampshire. In 1905, Professor Sanderson of the New Hampshire Agricultural College secured an expert scout from the Massachusetts force. He, together with Professor Sanderson's assistant, scouted the towns along the coast to and including the city of Portsmouth. The pest was found in nearly all of these towns. Professor Sanderson says that the infestation in New Hampshire is probably confined to Rockingham county, east of the Western Division of the Boston and Maine Railroad. Maine. During the present fall, notice has been received that there is a very small colony in the southeastern corner of Maine in the towns of Kittery, Elliot, and York. A stray egg cluster was also fou the Soldiers' Home at Togus, near Augusta. The United S Bureau of Entomology is now scouting the region from Kitten Portland, and it is possible that further infestations may be fo OCCURRENCE OF THE GYPSY MOTH IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES The gypsy moth is a well-known and seriously injurious in throughout a large section of the northern part of the Eastern Hen phere. It is very prevalent throughout all the countries of contin tal Europe. It is found as far north as Stockholm in Sweden, a St. Petersburg in Russia, across temperate Asia to China and Jap south into Ceylon and Northern Africa. The insect has probal been present in all of these regions, with the exception of Northe Africa, for many centuries, and its parasitic enemies are quite n merous and active. For this reason it is seldom that it maintains self to an extremely injurious extent for a great number of years, b nevertheless there are frequent outbreaks in which large sections the country are devastated. Only a few years ago a section of Sout ern Russia and neighboring countries as large as the states borderin on the Atlantic in this country was thoroughly devastated causing un told loss. A special report of the Massachusetts State Board of Agr culture on the gypsy moth quotes numerous records from the ento mological literature of Europe, showing that, long before entomolog was studied to any extent, records of outbreaks of this insect have been made. A number of years for the past two centuries have been known as “caterpillar years" in various sections of Europe from the fact that the gypsy moth was extremely prevalent. In recent years the insect has received a great deal of attention from European entomologists, and one of the problems which the modern forestry policies of Germany and other European countries have to consider is that of preventing damage to woodlands from the gypsy moth. |