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about July loth. If this bean-feeding habit of the insect should be- 

 come general, it might prove very annoying. 



Grasshoppers of several species were very abundant and injurious, 

 hundreds of bushels of grain having been destroyed by them, while 

 pasture and grasses were much injured, and many young fruit trees 

 were defoliated. Some fanners reported in early September that their 

 buckwheat had been so devoured by grasshoppers that only the stumps 

 of the stalks remained. 



Cicada canicularis Harr. was not so common this season as it has been 

 some years. 



Females of the fall canker-worm moth (Anisopteryx po met aria) were 

 taken depositing eggs on apple trees, Nov. 21-24. This insect is not 

 common in our part of the country, and is not noticeably injurious. 



Larvae of the pear-tree slug (Selandria cerasi) were found as late as 

 Oct. 30th, or later. They are not abundant and give us no trouble. 



The fall web-worm, Hyphantria textor, has become more abundant 

 and troublesome during the past three or four years. Young larvae were 

 first noticed July loth, and new lots continued to hatch until about the 

 middle of August. 



A fresh specimen of the cotton moth (Aletia xyliiia Say) was taken 

 Sept. 19th. 



On July 12th, a large number of small parasitic flies emerged from a 

 dead cut-worm (Noctuidae). These parasites are evidently the Copidosoma 

 truncatelhcm Dalman, which is so well figured by Prof. Riley in his Re- 

 port to the U. S. Dept. of Agr. for 1883. 



Early in December I took a living specimen of Cyrtophorus verrucosus 

 Oliv. in the wood of wild red cherry {P. pennsylvaiiica Linn.), and also 

 found a large number of larvs which I think were of the same species, as 

 they occupied similar cavities to that of the beetle. The larvae of a 

 Lepidopterous insect (probably ^gerian) was found under the bark of 

 the same tree. 



On Dec. 8th, a living pupa of Tremex columba was taken from the 

 heart of a green beech log, the log being over ten inches in diameter. At 

 the same time larvae of Saperda calcarata were taken from the heart of 

 Populus tremuloides. 



