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trees were serving as ornaments of a lawn, it had been necessary 

 to gather the pruned tips and branches from the ground from 

 time to time, and carry them away by the cart-load for burning. 

 From features shown in the excised material sent me, it is 

 thought that more than one species of Elaphidion may have been 

 engaged in these attacks. This will be ascertained when the 

 beetles have been reared from the infested twigs. 



From several sections of the State, as notably from Jefferson 

 county, unusually severe attacks from the rose-bug, Macrodactylus 

 subspinosLts (Fabr.), have been reported — in some instances destroy- 

 ing both the foliage and the fruit of the plum, the cherry, and the 

 grape. 



Fuller's rose-beetle, Aramigiis Fulleri Horn, a destructive 

 curculionid beetle, but fortunately of only local distribution, has 

 occasioned considerable trouble in the rose-houses in Rochester, 

 N. Y. Mr. W. J. Palmer states that the beetle is found in the 

 morning sitting at the base of the leaves, and if disturbed, usually 

 escapes by dropping to the ground and hiding. 



The white grub, Lachnosterna fusca (Frolich), has inflicted 

 much damage on pastures in Lewis county, by eating the roots of 

 the grasses. On one farm, that of Mr. J. L. Seymour, near Lyons 

 Falls Station, it had destroyed thirty acres of pasture, and its 

 operations at the time the report was made, seemed to be spread- 

 ing to several other farms in the vicinity. 



I regret that the very brief time that has elapsed between the 

 printing of my fourth report (issued November twenty-third) and 

 the presentation to your honorable board of the present one, has 

 not permitted the more careful preparation and arrangement of 

 the following pages which they would otherwise haA'e received, 

 and the introduction of some desired original illustration. I 

 would, therefore, beg the indulgence of my fellow entomologists, 

 and of those who may be familiar with most of the figures pre- 

 sented, so long as they will be new and serviceable to many 

 of the agriculturists whom they will reach. 



Respectfully submitted. 



J. A. LINTNER. 



