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The Flea Xegro Bug. Thyrecccris pidicaritis, Germar. 

 Order Hemiptera, Family Pentatomidse. 



Fig. !i. Flea Negro Bu<; (Thyreocoris pulicaria, 

 Oirmar). After Rilev. 



This species is sometimes quite injurious to the strawberry, puncturing 

 the stem with its beak and sucking the sap, thus causing the blossom or 

 fruit to wilt. Wherever it occurs, the nauseous flavor which it imparts to 

 every berry it touches will soon make its presence manifest. 



It is about .12 of an inch long, by three-fourths that width; the outline of 

 the head and thorax together triangular; that of the abdomen semi-oval and 

 broadly rounded behind ; the scutellum is very large, nearly covering the 

 abdomen. The color is glossy black above and beneath ; the edges of the 

 wing covers white; the antennae, tibije, and tarsi brown; the whole surface 

 finely punctured. 



Chrysalis Snails. Papilla fallax, Say. 



Although these little mollusks are, of course, not properly included in an 

 entomological article, it may be worth while to notice the injury occasion- 

 ally done by them to the strawberry. 



The only mention of this species in this connection, which I have seen, is 

 in Vol. II. of the American Naturalist, page 666 : A gentleman at New Har- 

 mony, Indiana, who found his strawberry plants dying rapidly, on searching 

 for the cause, discovered these mollusks at work upon the stems and crowns 

 of the plants, rasping off the outer coating, and sucking their juices in such 

 a manner as to cause them to decay. He found as many as forty upon one 

 plant, and thinks that they have killed several thousands upon the different 

 beds. Though more abundant on the strawberry, he has found them on a 

 variety of plants. Since attention has been called to the depredations of these 

 minute mollusks, they have been found at work upon the strawberry plants 

 in all the gardens examined. 



INSKCTS INJURIOUS TO THE CROWN. 



The Strawberry Crown Miner. Anarsia lineatella, Zeller. 



Order Lepidoptera, Family Tineidse. 



Under the above name I have to report the occurrence in Illinois of an 

 insect which, if it has hitherto occurred in this region, has wholly escaped 

 attention until last fall, but which has shown by its performances elsewhere 

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