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Fig. So. The apple flea-wee- 

 vil. X I0 - (After Forbes.) 



May 11 June 25. Attacking cherry 

 leaves in Kno\ County, June 10. Sev- 

 eral localities in New Jersey and Staten 

 Island; May Tune. Ranges from 

 Nova Scotia and Quebec through New 

 England to Oregon, south to Texas. 

 Occurs with niycr on the leaves of low 

 willows ( Chittanlrn) ; on AincJanchicr 

 flowers, April 27, (Frost.) Mines the 

 leaves of elm and alder, each larva 

 making a separate mine and pupating 

 in a cocoon in an inflated portion of 

 the mine. (Pierce.) 



Under the name of O. <-<iintx this species was called by Forbes 

 the "apple flea-weevil," the larva? making winding burrows in 

 apple and cherry leaves, pupating within the leaf, the adults also 

 feeding on the leaves, making numerous shallow pits which later 

 become small holes. In southern Illinois 58 mined leaves were 

 counted on a branch three feet long. The adults hibernate, the eggs 

 being laid soon after the leaves open, the new brood appearing in 

 May and June.* 



402-a (- ). ORCHKSTES PALLICOKMS PALLIDIOR var. nov. 



Similar to paUicornis except the color, which is entirely pale reddish, 

 except as to the sterna, which are black, and the abdomen, which is of a 

 darker red than the upper surface and sometimes blackish. Length 2.2 

 2.5 mm. (C. W. L.) 



Taken in the peninsula of Avalon, Newfoundland, in July by 

 \Y. S. (Jenuug. 



403 (8674). ORCHESTES CANXJS Horn, 1878, 620. 



Elongate-oval. Black, rather thickly clothed with long, gray, prostrate 

 hairs; elytra each with a large faint, irregular, semi-denuded spot of brown- 

 ish hairs in front of middle and a similar postmedian common one across 

 the suture; antenna? and tarsi dark reddish-brown. Beak as long as head 

 and thorax, rather coarsely and sparsely punctate. Thorax on-3-half wider 

 than long, sides broadly rounded, narrowed and feebly constricted near 

 apex; disc coarsely and closely punctured and with a vague median length- 

 wise impression. Elytra elongate-oval, sides parallel from himieri to near 

 middle, then gradually converging to apex; strife rather deep, coarsely and 

 closely punctate, intervals each with two irregular rows of rather coarse 

 punctures. Under surface finely and rather cpaisely punctate. Length 

 2.83 mm. 



*T\vtMity-sixth Rep. Nox. Ins. III., 1911, 83. 



