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" June 19. — The apple bud-worm, which I find plentifully destroying the blos- 

 soms on my tiees, is not confined to any one kind. It is even on the quinces." — 

 Eev. F. J. H. AxFOBD, Fort Williams, N.S. 



" June 17. — By this mail I send you samples of a worm that is not generally 

 known here ; in fact, I have not observed it before. These were taken from a garden 

 at Port Williams, and I hear of it in several other localities. The owner of the 

 garden where I got these, says he has picked and burned about a peck of these leaves 

 containing worms. They seem to roll and seal themselves up in the leaf, which 

 becomes dead and dry. In some cases they eat the young wood. I shall be glad if 

 you can give us any information about this pest, which may prove troublesome. I 

 have advised Paris Green. Your Bulletin 11 is to hand, and is what was wanted by 

 everyone."— C. E. H. Starr, Wolfville, N.S. 



"June 31. — I send you enclosed in a box some caterpillars taken from my 

 cherry trees, to which they are doing much harm by destroying the blossoms and 

 buds J they are also in the apple buds, and are much more plentiful than last year. 

 Some Gravenstein trees show quite a brown appearance, and they have killed a large 

 percentage of the blossoms, so that the trees will have but a small crop of fruit." — 

 E. E. Dickie, Cornwallis, W.S. 



From the fact that the larvae pass the winter half-grown, on twigs, they are able 

 to do a great deal of harm by attacking the buds and boring into them early, before the 

 leaves unfold. The only remedy that can be recommended is to spray the trees directly 

 the buds open, and again after the flowers have fallen. Kerosene emulsion sprayed 

 three times over trees, upon the twigs of which they were in winter quarters inside 

 their silken tubes, had no efi'ect upon the larvae, having failed apparently to pene- 

 trate through the silken covering. Although like the Leaf-rollers they enclose them- 

 selves in cases made of leaves drawn together, they have to continually draw in 

 fresh material, and I found last season that where an orchard was severely attacked 

 at the same time by this insect, the Canker-worm (Anisopteryxpometaria, Harris), the 

 Lesser Apple-leaf Eoller (Teras malivorana, Le B.),and the Oblique-banded Leaf-roller 

 (Caccecia rosaceana, Harris), all were much reduced in numbers by a single spraying 

 with Paris Green. 



The moth is of an ashy grey colour, with a milky-white blotch on each wing. 

 The eggs, which are remarkably flat, are laid in July, and the young caterpillars 

 grow very slowly, and pass the winter half-grown on the twigs, and, according 

 to Prof. Fernald, also on the ground amongst the fallen leaves. 



Note. — Upon applying to Prof. J. H. Comstock for his experience, as to the 

 hibernation of this insest, he kindly requested his assifetant, Mr. Slingerland, who 

 has made a special study of the Eye-spotted Bud-moth, to write to me on the subject. 

 Since the above was sent to the printer, Mr. Slingerland has very kindly sent me a 

 complete record of his observations, which I trust will soon be published. I am 

 permitted to say that his experience entirely confirms my own, the larvae leaving 

 the leaves in September when half grown, and spinning upon the twigs winter 

 shelters, whence they emerge the following spring and attack the opening buds. 



THE CIGAR CASE-BEARER OP THE APPLE. 



{Coleophora, New Species.) 



Attack. — Small orange-coloured caterpillars with black heads and dark feet, 

 encased in brown leathery cigar-shaped cases, which they carry about with them. 

 They attack the leaves of apple, pear and plum trees, by eating a small hole through 

 the epidermis and then feeding on the parenchyma or soft substance of the leaf, 

 which lies between the upper and lower surfaces, protruding their bodies a long way 

 out of the cases, and eating for some distance around the central hole. When they 

 have consumed all they can reach they move to a fresh place and make another 

 hole. The brown cases are very tough and have some of the hairs from beneath the 

 leaves attached to them exteriorly ; at the upper end the case is contracted abruptly 

 into a 3-limbed-star-^haped orifice, the lips of which fit closely together — through 

 this hole the excrement is ejected and ultimately the moth makes its exit. Tho 



