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spot adjacent to the middle of the inner margin; hind wings with two narrow trans- 
verse brown lines between two brownish bands; thorax with a central brown line; 
abdominal segments plaited and prominent at the sides. The wings expand from 2+ 
to 3inches. The females are much larger and of a lighter brownish gray color than 
the males, with the square spot on the fore-wings less distinct. Ranges from Massa- 
chusetts to Florida and Georgia. (Harris. ) 
2. THE RED-TAILED ATTELABUS. 
Attelabus analis Weber. 
Order COLEOPTERA ; family CURCULIONID®. 
Rolling up the leaves of the oak and black walnut, a weevil a quarter of an inch 
long, with a long, slender, cylindrical head and short, broad, thick body. The antenne, 
legs, and middle of the breast deep blue-black ; the thorax, wing-covers, and abdomen 
dull red; the wing-covers, taken together, nearly square and pitted in rows. 
According to Harris, this pretty weevil is found on the leaves of oak 
trees in June and July. Mr. George Hunt has observed it on the walnut 
in May before the buds open, at Providence. 
The following insects also occur on the black walnut: 
3. Walnut leaf-roller, Tortrix rileyana Grote. 
4, Walnut case-bearer, Acrobasis juglandis Le Baron. 
5. The Luna moth, actias luna (Linn). 
6. Conotrachelus juglandis (Lec). Larva taken from walnuts, Mt. 
Carmel, Illinois, H. Shimer, Mus. Peab. Acad. Science, Salem, 
Mass. (See Harris, p. 77.) 
The following leaf-miners are enumerated by Mr. Chambers, with the 
notes appended : 
7. Lithocolletis caryefoliella. WUarva in irregular blotch-mine in upper 
surface of leaves. 
8. Gracilaria blandella Clem. Larva when small in a linear whitish mine 
in upper surface of leaves, afterwards feeding and pupating under 
the turned-down edge. 
9. Gracilaria juglandinigreellaChamb. Larvaatfirst mining theleaves 
beneath, afterwards feeding and pupating under the turned-up 
edge. 
10. Aspidisca juglandiella Chamb. Larva in a very small blotch-mine,; 
from which it cuts out a case in which it pupates. 
11. Nepticula juglandifoliella Chamb, (and Clemens?) Larva in small, 
linear crooked mines; sometimes many in a leaf. Mine in upper 
surface. 
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE BUTTERNUT. 
(Juglans cinerea.) 
AFFECTING THE TRUNK AND LIMBS. 
1. THE SPOTTED LEPTOSTYLUS. 
Leptostylus macula (Say). 
Order COLEOPTERA; family CERAMBYCID. 
Under the bark of old decaying trees a longicorn larva, changing to a pupa in its 
cell and early in July giving out a small thick long-horned beetle of a brown or chest- 
