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FORTY-tOURTH REPORT ON THE StATE MuSEUM 



Operations : and Figures of the Insect. 

 Mr. Jack has kindly given me permission to use the figures illus- 

 trating the insect which accompanied a brief notice of it in a late 

 number of the Garden and Forest {loc. cit.). The figure of the fly in 

 my Fourth Report was not from nature but from Curtis' Phytomyza 

 lateralis, with which ours had been pronounced identical. 



Fig. 8.— The Chrysanthemum fly, Phytomyza chkysanthemi, with its larva, and its 

 mines in a chrysanthemum leaf. 



Mr. Jack has also informed me that the insect had been trouble- 

 some in the vicinity of Boston during the past three or four years, 

 but had only come under his observation about a year ago. It had 



