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PEAR. LEAVES. 



rations like pin holes appearing at several of the buus, from which 

 perforations issue a small cylindrical beetle of a deep brown or 

 black color, its antennae and legs rust-yellow. Length O.JO. 

 This works also in the trunk of the tree, earlier in the season, as 

 already stated, page 327. See Harris's Treatise, p. 78. 



AFFECTING THE LEAVES. 



Cherry slug- worm, Celandria Cerasi. A shining slimy blackish 

 slug worm, shaped like a tadpole, in June and July consuming 

 the parenchyma of the leaves and leaving their veins entire; 

 some years destroying almost the whole of the foliage. See Cherry 

 insects, No. 92. 



57. Goldsmith BEETLE, -^reo£?a /amgera, Linn. (Coleoptera. Scarabaeida).) 



In May and June, eating the leaves of this and of various forest 

 trees, a large thick oval beetle of a shining lemon-yellow color, 

 its thorax of a greenish golden tinge, and its under side coppery 

 or dark green with white hairs. Length 0.80 to 1.00. See Har- 

 ris's Treatise, p. 2L 



affecting the fruit. 



5§. Pear blistering fly, Cantharis Pyrivora, new species. (Coleoptera. 

 Meloidae.) 



Early in June devouring the young fruit, a long cylindrical 

 blistering beetle, of a green-blue color and not shining, its legs 

 orange yellow with the hips, knees, feet and tips of the shanks 

 blue-black and the antennae black. Length 0.90. 



For specimens of this insect I am indebted to my friend Wm. 

 S. Robertson, who informs me they were taken upon a pear tree 

 at Canajoharie about the first of June, 1838. Soon after its flowers 

 had fallen these beetles made their appearance, in numbers, eating 

 the young fruit voraciously and in a short time destroying all or 

 nearly all upon the tree. I have also received this same insect 

 from the southern section of the State. It equals in size our 

 largest American Cantharis hitherto known, the JVuttallii of Say 

 {fulgifer Le Conte) but is destitute of the brilliancy belonging to 



