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Fire Blight: two new foes of the Apple and Pear. By BcnJ. D. Walsh. 

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On the (jenus Colias in North America. By Saml. II. Scudder. From 

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Letters were read from Jacob StauiFer, dated Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 15th, 

 1862, S. S. Rath von, dated Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 18th, 1862, Rev. Chas. 

 J. S. Bethune, dated Cobourg, C. W., Oct. 22nd, 1862, and William Saun- 

 ders, dated London, C. W., Oct. 22nd, 1862, acknowledging their election 

 as Corresponding Members of the Society. 



A communication was read from Mr. Jacob Stauffer, dated Lancaster, 

 Pa., Oct. 22nd, 1862, exhibiting drawings of a Puff-ball, a species of Scler- 

 oderma, found in a wood near Lancaster, Sept. 15th, 1861, and also of a 

 species of a small beetle which he had bred from it. He states, that on 

 cutting open the Puff-ball it contained numerous minute larvae embeded 

 in the dark flocculent matter. The imago is not one tenth of an inch in 

 length, dark, covered with short, stiff", yellowish hairs. He supposed it 

 to be a species of L//coj)erdina, but had no means of deciding the question. 

 Mr. S. also submitted, for further confinuation, a few drawings and notes 

 on the differences between the larvte of Papilio ghtucus and turnus. The 

 larva of glaucus (which was taken from the grape-vine, detected in biting 

 off" entire bunches of green grapes) was bi'own, having a single row of 

 light blue spots on t^ie hinder margin and dorsally mottled with darker ir- 



