348 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 



APPLE. FRUIT. 



50. Rose BXJG, Macrodadylus su6sptnosus, Fabr. (Coleoptera. Melolonthidae.) 



Clustering, sometimes in multitudes, upon the young apples 

 and devouring them, the latter part of June, and when these do 

 not suffice it, eating the leaves also; infesting likewise roses, 

 grape vines, plums and cherries : — a smallish oblong buff-yellow 

 beetle, with shining yellow legs and very long black feet. Length 

 0.35 to 0.40. See Transactions, 1855, p. 477. 



51. Apple Thrips, PhkBothrips Mali, Fitch. (Thysaiioptera. Thripididse.) 



Appearing in a roundish cavity ate near the tip end of the 

 young fruit J a minute, very slender blackish-purple insect with 

 narrow silvery-white wings lying upon its back resembling a long 

 Y-shaped mark. Length 0.06. See Transactions, 1854, p. 806. 



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Wasps and Hornets are frequently in the habit of feeding upon 

 growing apples and other sweet fruits, gnaVing small roundish 

 cavities in them, and also in autumn when prepared apples are 

 placed in the sun to dry numbers of the same insects are again 

 attracted to them. The common hornet, Vespa maculata^ Linn., 

 the yellow jacket, as it is usually designated, Vespa vulgaris^ 

 Linn., and our common v>'a.sip,Polistes fuscata^Tah..) are the chief 

 species which depredate in this manner. But as these insects are 

 most important on account of the injuries they are liable to inflict 

 upon our persons, the description of them more appropriately 

 belongs to another branch of this subject. 



