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TABLE L — Families of American Leaf-miner Hosts 



Family 



Leguminosese. . 



Cruciferes 



CompositeEe. . . 



Malvaceae 



Solanacese 



ChenopodiacesB. 

 Curcurbitacese. . 

 Plantaginacese. . 



Gramineae 



Fag aces 



HamamelidaeeEe 



Lobeliaceffl 



Eanunculaceae. . 

 Atripliceae 



No. of Hosts 



During 1913 the leaf-miner was bred from seventeen host species 

 at Batesburg, which is the greatest variety recorded for any one local- 

 ity. This suggests that the species is decidedly omnivorous, but the 

 preceding table reveals an apparent preference for the legume and 

 the crucifer families. This might tend to show that A. scuteUata 

 formerly had for its regular host a species from one of these two fam- 

 ilies. The seventeen Batesburg hosts are giVen in the table below: 



TABLE IL — List of Leaf-miner Hosts Observed at Batesburg, S. C. 



The host plants of A. scuteUata in Europe have been listed by 

 Webster and Parks. ^ 



Doctor Chittenden has suggested the name "clover leaf-miner" 

 to distinguish the species, but since other plants are equally attacked, 

 it would seem preferable not to employ such a distinctive name. 

 Webster and Parks, in a recent paper on this species on alfalfa,^ pro- 

 pose the name "serpentine leaf -miner" which, to the present writer, 

 seems more appropriate. 



ijour. Agr. Res., vol. I, pp. 5&-87, Oct. 10, 1913. 



2 Webster and Parks. The Serpentine Leaf-miner. Jour. Agi*. Res., vol. I, 

 no. 1, Oct. 10, 1913. 



