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Dr. Fitch states as follows in his account of this insect given in 

 3iis First Report on the Insects of Neio York : 



The beetle makes its appearance everj' rear early in June. * * * In the 

 course of this and, the following month the female dei)osits her eggs (page 13). 



Commonly, here in AA'ashington county, they begin to be found upon trees about 

 the 20th of June, from which time until the close of the month they appear to 

 be more numerous than they are afterward (page 17). 



In all orchards where the borer is present this measure [soap application] should 

 invariably be resorted to the latter part of May, or in more northern localities, where 

 the beetle will be somewhat later in appearance, early in June (page 22). 



Referring to Mr, Junkins' observation? of the first egg deposited 

 after the middle of June, many after July 11th, and oviposition 

 continued after August 7th, it would seem advisable that the use 

 of the soap application should, in Northern New York, not be 

 delayed longer than the 15th of June, and should be continued 

 through the month of July, and perhaps later. 



Mr. Charles G. Atkins, of Bucksport, Maine, in a paper read 

 before the Maine State Poraological Society at its last annual meet- 

 ing, confirms the above observations upon the late oviposition of 

 Siiperda Candida, He has found the egg-laying to begin (at his 

 farm in Kennebec count}') soon after the middle of Juiie, and- to 

 continue nntil late in August, and had met with -unhatched eggs 

 after the 1st of September. 



Mr. Atkins offers the suggestion that relief from this apple-tree 

 borer may be better sought through remedial than preventive meas- 

 ures. Witli young trees having a smooth bark he would prefer 

 mounding the base to a height of six inches or more withsjind, thus 

 compelling the beetle to place her eggs where they, or the young 

 larvae emerging from them and entering the bark, may easily be dis- 

 covered by proper inspection, and destroj-ed. {Home Farm, March 

 5, 1885.) 



The Clover-le.if "Weevil Destroyed by a Fungus Atpack. 



During the latter part of Mav, some larvce were received from 

 Dr. Sturtevant, of Geneva, N. Y., which had evidently been killed 

 by fungus attack. The larvse were found attached to, and coiled 

 around, the tips of blades of grass, dead, stiffened, shrunken, and 

 ])artly covered with a whitish fungus. From a careful examination 

 of the larvsB, it seemed probable that they were immature forms of 

 the punctured clover-leaf weevil, Fhytoyiomus punctatus. 



Other examples of the same larva were received from the same 

 source, on November 3d, in the same condition with those previ- 

 ously sent. Not being positive of my determination of the species, 

 request was made for living examples, to be sought for buried be- 

 neath the surface of the ground, or while feeding at night, but they 

 «ould not be obtained. Some of the material was, therefore, sent to 

 the Entomological Division of the Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington, where it was compared with alcoholic specimens, and 



