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New York Localities. 



The localities in New York where injuries by this insect havo 

 been recorded are Ithaca, Kochester, Lockport, Clifton and J*»r- 

 dan Station. Its operations at large have not come under my personal 

 notice, but its presence, to an injurious extent, in the eastern portion 

 of our State is very probable, from statements made to me three years 

 ago, of an affection of some peach-trees in Schenectady and Albany. 

 The moth has been captured by me in Schoharie, N. Y., on June 5th. 



Like many of our New York TineidcB, it occurs also in Texas. It ex- 

 tends northwardly into Canada, where it is believed by Mr. Saunders 

 to have been introduced in strawberry roots from the United States. 



Injurious to Strawberries. 



In the Annual Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario for 

 the Year 1872, published in 1873, we learn that the ravages of this in- 

 sect are not confined to the peach, plum and, perhaps, the apple, but 

 that it also occurs under very different conditions and affecting a very 

 different food-plant. In this report, Mr. Wm. Saunders, the editor of 

 the Canadian Entomologist, describes the insect under the name of the 

 strawherry-root or cro7vn borer. During the years 18G8 and 18G9, it 

 was very destructive in certain grounds at St. Thomas, Ontario, the 

 caterpillar eating irregular channels in various directions through the 

 crown and larger roots of the strawberry plants, causing them to 

 wither and die, and thus destroying a large proportion of the plants. 

 Mr. Saunders gives a minute description of the caterpillar, narrates its 

 history and states that it probably has two annual broods. 



Specimens of the larviB obtained late in the season were found alive 

 within their silken cocoons on the 12tli of January, rendering it prob- 

 able that this brood hibernate in the larval state and transform to 

 pupjB in the spring, a short time before their reappearance in their 

 perfect state. 



Another "Strawberry-crown Borer." 

 The above strawberry-root or crown borer, of Saunders, should not 

 be confounded with the strawberry-crown borer, of Riley, — an insect 

 belonging not to the order of Lepidoptera, but to the Coleoptera, of 

 the family commonly known as snout-beetles or weevils. 



This latter insect has been described and figured in its larval and 

 perfect stages by Professor Riley {Third Report on the Insects of Mis- 

 souri, p. 42, fig. 14, 1871) as Analcis fragaricB.* So far as known, it 

 is confined to the Mississippi valley, and has not, to our knowledge, 

 been reported from the Eastern States. Its habit of boring down 



"•^Xow known as Tyloderma fragarice, (Riley). 



