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dence at North Ashburnham, Mass., " I had hundreds of bushels of the 

 finest fruit rendered worthless by the apple-maggot last year" [1883]. 

 Mr. Walsh received larvae and pupse from Connecticut, from which he 

 reared the fly {lb., p. 31). In New York State it has proved a great 

 pest at North Hempstead, Long Island. Mr. Trimble, of New Jersey, 

 in 1867, stated that it was very plentiful throughout the Hudson River 

 country, but had not been observed in his State. It has been prevalent 

 at the Oneida Community, where it was mostly confined to certain va- 

 rieties of autumn apples {Rept. Comm. Agricul. for 1881, p. 196). 

 Prof. Comstock, of Ithaca, has observed it in one of the orchards of 

 Cornell University, in only a few varieties, not specified {Id., ib.). From 

 Franklin, Delaware county, larvae have been reported as " living in the 

 pulp of the apple, making long winding roads through it and appearing 

 to come out through the skin" {A)mr. Eniomol, i, 1868, p. 59). In 

 Schenectady the fly has occasionally been captured by me upon fruit- 

 trees, from the 3d to the 27th of July — at different times upon the 

 leaves of a cherry-tree, where it had probably been drawn for the pur- 

 pose of feeding upon the " honey-dew " of Myzus cerasi, which it in- 

 cites the aphis to secrete after the manner related by Dr. Fitch in his 

 First llepori on the Insects of Neio York, p. 65, of Tephritis mellifji- 

 7iis.* 



Preference for Early Apples. 



As the insect, during its past history, has shown a decided preference 

 for summer and autumn apples, its attack upon Spitzenbergs, mentioned 

 by Mr. June, is of interest, as an extension of its sphere of operations. 

 In Massachusetts the crop of some summer sweets had, for a series of 

 years, been completely destroyed by it. In New Hampshire, in the 

 towns of Hancock and Dublin, where it was reported as the most de- 

 structive of all apple insects, it was "confined to early apples as soon as 

 they ripen." From Long Island it is stated that "only in the ripest 

 apples and in sweet and mellow subacid fruit are they found by us " 

 {Kept. Coiinn. Agric. for 1881, p. 196). 



It seems, however, by no means to be confined to the early fruit, for in 

 Wallingford, Conn., the Baldwin and some other varieties of winter 

 apples were infested. A gentleman writing from this place states : "Two 

 weeks ago [the letter was written shortly after November 12th J we over- 

 hauled two hundred and fifty bushels of apples that we had gathered and 

 placed in store for winter use, and of that number we threw out fifty 

 bushels, most of which had been rendered worthless, except for cider [! ! !] 

 or hogs, by the apple-worm or apple-maggot. The apple-worm [ Carpo- 



* Is Rlvdlia vlridiilans R. Dcsv. (O.-S. Cat. Diptera N. A., 1878, p. 1S2.) 



