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cessful in June, 1910. The material was submitted to Air. August 

 Busck who identified it as Platynota rostrana Walk. 



The Cork-Colored Orange Tortricid is recorded as feeding on orange 

 from St. George, Lake Bearsford, Enterprise, Ft. Ogden, Melbourne 

 and Key Largo, Fla. In Columbia, Texas, it was found feeding on 

 the flower buds and leaves of cotton by Dr. E. A. Schwarz and Mr. 

 C. H. T. Townsend records it from Brownsville. The former has 

 also collected the larva of this pest rolled in leaves of cotton at Bayou 

 Sara, La., and it has been received from the same plant from Auburn, 

 Ala. In 1885, Mr. J. W. Spencer of Sullivan County, Indiana, sub- 

 mitted corn infested with several pests, one of which proved to be 

 Platynota rostrana Walk. The adult was reared by Mr. Theo. Per- 

 gande. This insect has also been collected at Kingston, Jamaica, 

 by Mr. C. H. T. Townsend, feeding on the leaves of Eucalyptus. Aside 

 from the localities previously mentioned, this comprises all the records 

 in possession of the Bureau of Entomology. 



The damage to fruit by this insect is quite similar to that caused 

 by the orange tortrix, Tortrix citrana Fernald, which at times becomes of 

 economic importance in certain sections of the citrus belt in Southern 

 California. In a recent paper ^ Mr. H. J. Quayle describes the man- 

 ner in which the larvse of the latter burrow into the rind of the orange 

 and, as is also the case with the cork-colored orange tortricid, they 

 do not enter the fleshy part of the fruit. Fruit exhibiting the burrows 

 of these insects is necessarily classed as culls and when discovered 

 in the packing houses is thrown out as such. Furthermore, as stated 

 by Mr. Quayle, these burrows form excellent places for the develop- 

 ment of naval end rot, wither tip fungus and decay following blue 

 mold. 



THE LEOPARD MOTH AS A PEST OF APPLE NURSERY 



STOCK 



By W. E. Britton, Stale Entomologist, New Haven, Conn. 



In September, 1910, during the course of the work of inspecting the 

 nurseries of Connecticut, in one large fruit tree nurserj' not far from 

 the coast, some apples trees were noticed which had borers working 

 in the stems or trunks, which at that time were perhaps about three 

 fourths of an inch in diameter. The foreman stated that they had 

 found and destroyed a number of similarly infested trees. Three 

 or four of these trees were cut, the stems split, and a whitish grub 



^ Jour. Econ. Entom., Vol. Ill, no. 5, p. 401, Oct., 1910. 



