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operates; another trap (illustrated) is a band of tin suspended from a 

 cloth bound to the trunk ; when caterpillars are on the tree, beat them 

 down on straw and burn them, or spra)^ the leaves with Paris green 

 'water by a force-pump. Protection from the flat-headed apple-tree 

 borer. 



Leaf-mining Anthomyiidas. (Canadian Entomologist, for May, 1882, 

 xiv, pp. 96-7.) (Thirteenth Ann. Rept. of the Entomological Society 

 of Ofttario, for the year 1882. 1883, p. 29.) 



Discovery of the first American species of leaf-mining AnthomyiidcE, 

 mining beet-leaves at Middleburgh, N. Y., viz., Chortophila floccosa 

 Macq., and two new species, to be described in the forthcoming Report 

 of the N. Y. State Entomologist. 



The Grain Aphis — Siphonophora avenre {Fabr.). (Country Gentleman, 

 for June 22, 1882, xlvii, p. 493, c. 2-3 — 22 cm.) 



Infesting wheat in Virginia ; Dr. Fitch's notice of it in his 6th Report ; 

 its attack on the heads continued until the kernels harden ; many of 

 the examples are parasitized ; Aphis granaria a synonym ; attacks also 

 oats, rye and barley. 



The Apple-Tree Case-Bearer. (Country Gentleman, for July 6, 1882, 

 xlvii, p. 533, c. 1-2—28 cm.) 



The caterpillar, bearing its peculiar case, is sent from South Byron, 

 N. Y. ; natural history of the species, known as Coleophora malivorella 

 Riley, given, with references to full notices of it ; spra5nng with Paris 

 green and London purple in early spring a good remedy for it. Direc- 

 tions for mailing injurious insects — should not be sent in paper boxes, 

 permitting escape and propagation in new localities. 



The Spring Canker- Worm — Anisopteryx vernata Peck. (Country 

 Gentleman, for July 6, 1882, xlvii, p. 533, c. 2-3 — 26 cm.) 



Abundance of the caterpillars in New Canaan, Ct., confined to two 

 orchards. For means of destruction reference is made to notice in the 

 C. G., of May 18. The pupae, buried three or four inches deep beneath 

 the tree, may be killed by breaking up the ground, or by turning swine 

 in the orchards to root them up. 



The Rose-Bug. (Country Gentleman, for July 6, 1882, xlvii, p. 534, c. 

 3 — 10 cm.) 



Leaves stripped from cherry trees in Scarsdalc, N. Y., by Macrodac- 

 tylus subsptnosHs. The inquirer of name and habits is referred to C. 

 G., of June 26. Sprinkling foliage with tansy water has been said to 

 prevent its depredations. Paris green sprinkling would destroy it; 

 shaking it from trees on sheets recommended. 



The Seventeen-year Locust. The Ontario County Times, xxviii, for 

 July 12, 1882, p. 3, c. 5 — 58 cm.) 



Gives the seventeen-year and thirteen-year periodicity of Cicadas 

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