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Insect Eggs on Strawberries. (Country Gentleman, for June 25, 1885, 

 L, p. 537, c. 3—21 cm.) 



The eggs do not indicate an attack that need impair our enjoyment of the 

 fruit. Their presence is unusual and probably accidental. They are the eggs 

 of some hemipterous insect, belonging probably to one of the larger plant-bugs. 

 Description is given of them. The nauseous taste imparted to raspberries by 

 the presence of a small bug, known as Corimekena pulicaria, is referred to, and 

 the insect described. This same' insect attacks the blossoms and the stems of 

 strawberries. 



Plant-Lice, Elm. Beetles, etc. (New England Homestead, for July 

 4, 1885, xix, p. 269, c. 1-2 — 15 cm.) 



Identification of ScMzoneura Americana as injuring leaves of elms at West 

 Stockbridge. The insect reported as stripping the leaves of the elms, is 

 probably the elm-leaf beetle, Galeruca xanthomeliena, although not known 

 before to extend so far into Massachusets. May-flies perhaps mistaken for 

 mosquitoes. 



The Apple Tree Bark-louse. (New England Homestead, for July 

 4, 1885, xix, p. 269, c. 4-5— 20 cm.) 



Scales on bark of an apple tree sent are those of Mytilaspis pommnim of 

 Bouche {^M. ])omicorticis Riley). Directions for destroying the insect, by scrap- 

 ing the scales and by spraying kerosene emulsions. 



The Cut- Worm and Onion Maggot. (Country Gentleman, for July 

 9, 1885, L, p. 574-5, c. 4, 1—20 cm.) 



For the arrest of cut-worm ravages reported from Globe Village, Mass., the 

 inquirer is referred to remedies given in the paper published in the 44th Rept. 

 N. Y. St. Agricul. Society. For controlling Anthomyia brassicm and Phorhia 

 ccparum, the remedies are removing the plants with the soil containing the 

 larvse, and killing the pupse with gas-lime or plowing and harrowing repeatedly. 

 Preventives are, strong-smelling substances and not planting in infested 

 ground. 



Peach and Cherry Borers. (Country Gentleman, for July 9, 1885, 

 L, p. 575, c. 1 — 18 cm.) 



Peach trees in Annapolis infested by Phlaotrihus liminnris. It attacks the 

 elm also. The cherry trees are probably infested by Scolytus rugulosus Ratz., 

 recently introduced from Europe; see an interesting article upon this species in 

 the Canadian Entomologist for September, 1884. The injuries of P. liminaris 

 seem to be rapidly increasing in localities in the State of New York. 



The Fig-eater — Allorhina nitida. (Country Gentleman, for July 

 9, 1885, p. 575, c. 2-3—15 cm.) 



The species identified from Madison, N. J., and briefly described; its fondness 

 for juicy fruits; is not known to occur in New York; the larva is one of the white 

 grubs, and is quite injurious to the roots of grass; its abundance in Washington; 

 the beetle is a pollen feeder and sometimes occurs in great numbers, as in an 

 instance cited, The "trim flower-chafer" might be a better common name 

 for it. 



