The Cigar-case Bearer. 



CoUophora fletchereUa Fernald. 



Order lepidopteea ; superfamily tineina. 



During the past year (1894) fruit trees in western IS'ew York 

 have suffered severely from the attacks of two, practically new, 

 insect pests. One 

 of these, the plum 

 scale, was dis- 

 cussed in Bulletin 

 83 ; and in the 

 following pages 

 are given the re- 



sults of our investi- 

 gation of the other 

 insect, the cigar-case 

 bearer. 



Judging from the 

 number of inquiries, 

 with their a c c o in- 



54.— Work of the Cigar-case bearer on apple foliage, June 14. 

 (From Bailey.) 



p a n y 1 n g specimens, 



that reached the in- 



sectary in 1894, this case bearer was one of the most serious pests of 



the season. Professor Bailey's observations, recorded in Bulletin 



84, p. 15, also show that the insect was very destructive, especially 



in the apple orchards in Wayne and Monroe counties. Fig. 54 is a 



fair sample of its destructive work on apple foliage; many of the 



