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the year 1884, and at Rochester, Monroe county in 1892. On June 2d 

 of the present year (1896), Mr. A. P. Case of Vernon, Oneida county, 

 sent to me asparagus twigs bearing numerous eggs of the beetle, and 

 shoots eaten by the larvae. He writes: — "The insect has appeared 

 since Saturday last (May 30th) on all of the asparagus beds here, where 

 they have never before been seen. Every sprout is covered with the 

 worms, and the new seedling shoots are alive with the full-grown worms, 

 and newly hatched ones are burrowing into the stalks. The tops of the 

 young shoots are alive with the mature worms which eat them off as 

 they appear. The crop is worthless for this year." During the meeting 

 of the Association of Economic Entomologists, at Buffalo, a further 

 western extension of the insect within our State was brought to my 

 notice, in examples given me by Mr. Ottomar Reinecke of that city 

 which were collected by him Augast 20th from wild asparagus growing in 

 the outskirts of the city. 



[On June 2d, 1897, information was received of its abundant presence 

 in a garden at Geneseo, Livingston Co., where it was attacking the 

 young shoots as they appeared above ground, and destroying the crop.] 



The Ash-grey Blister Beetle. 



The ash-grey blister beetle, Macrobasis imicolor (Kirby) was received 

 (June 9th) from New York city, where it was reported as feeding 

 destructively on a locust hedge. The young and tender leaves at the end 

 of the branches had been eaten over the entire extent of the hedge of 

 about 600 feet in length. They were driven away or killed when the 

 pyrethrum powder recommended for them, was applied. 



Examples of the same insect came June 25th from Factoryville, N. Y., 

 where they were rapidly destroying the leafage of potato vines. 



The Chinch Bug. 



A correspondent from Almond, Allegany Co., writes that this insect 

 BUssiis Icucopterus Say, is very thick on his new seeding and has ruined 

 his pastures, and that it has destroyed his meadows for the past 4 or 

 5 years. They were working in the greater part of his 300 or 400 acres 

 of land. Mr. Van Duzee, in his collections in Erie and Niagara coun- 

 ties the present year, has met with only a few scattered individuals of 

 the species. 



