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beneath the duster of plant-lice; this is knows to botanists as Scoi'ias 

 spongiostim. It is evidently fed by the honey-dew that falls upon it." 

 An example of this fungus has been shown me by Miss Florence 

 Himes, of Albany, who had taken it from an alder in Washington park. 

 The fungus was at the tip of a small twig that was given off from about 

 four inches below the aphis-bearing stem, and curved upward so near 

 it that it might easily have received quite an amount of the honey-dew 

 dropping from the plant-lice. The specimen was identified by Prof. 

 Chales A. Peck, State Botanist, as the above-named species of fungus. 

 Two or three other examples of the same had been seen by Miss Himes. 



Phylloxera vitifoliae (Fitch). 

 The Grapevine Phylloxera. 



Leaves of grapevine having their under surface almost entirely 

 covered with the galls of this insect, similar to the representation in,' 

 Figure 28, were received Au- 

 gust 6th, from Director Col- 

 lier, of the New York State 

 Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion. They were from the 

 vineyards of Mr. Edwin Slo- 

 combe, of Camillus, N. Y., 

 who reported the foliage of 

 his Delaware grapes as being 

 literally covered with the 

 galls, as shown in the examples 

 sent. The insects emerged a 

 few days after the reception 

 of the leaves. 



Dr. Collier states that the 

 insect has been quite plentiful 

 on the Clinton grape, in the vineyards at the Station, and had alsa 

 appeared on a few other varieties. 



Fia. 28.- 



-Grapevine leaf with galls of Phylloxera 



VITIF0LIJ3. 



Crangonyx mucronatus Forbes. 



A Blind Shrimp in Wells. 



Several examples of this crustacean were received from Oswego, 



N. Y., where they were taken from the water of a driven well of 



moderate depth, located in a gravelly soil, on a rising knoll. The 



creatures are slender forms, white, about a half -inch in length, with. 



