INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE BOX ELDER, ETC. 133 
5, Tortrix larva.* | 
6. Lithocolletis guttifinitella Clem., var. wsculisella Chamb. Larva in 
flat, blotch mine in upper surface of leaves. (Chamb., /. ¢.) 
Box ELDER (Negundo aceroides). 
Order LEPIDOPTERA. 
1. Gracilaria negundella Chamb. Larva curls down the edge of a leaf. 
Order HEMIPTERA. 
2. Pulvinaria innumerabilis Rathvon. (Comstock, N. Amer. Ent., i, 25 
. Chaitophorus negundinis Thomas. (In Illinois in June, Miss Smith, 
Thomas, 8th Rept. Ill., 103.) 
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Order COLEOPTERA, 
4. Chrysobothris femorata (Fabr.). 
MESQUITE (Prosopis). 
Order COLEOPTERA. 
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. Chrysobothris octocola Leconte. (Texas, Arizona, and Colorado 
River of California; lives in species of Prosopis. Leconte, Rev. of 
Buprestide of U.S. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., 1859, 230.) 
. Cyllene antennatus White. (“Lives in the mesquite wood,” Arizona, 
Horn. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., viii, 135.) 
3. Bruchus uniformis Leconte. (Colorado Desert. Abundant in the 
pods of Prosopis and Strombocarpus. Leconte.) 
. B. prosopis Leconte. (Found with the preceding. Leconte.) 
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HONEY Locust (Gleditschia triacanthus). 
Order LEPIDOPTERA. 
1. Heterogenea shurtlefii Packard. (Shurtleff in Packard’s Synopsis 
of Bombycide.) 
2. Anisopteryx vernata Peck. (Feeding on the leaves in Providence, 
May and June. Packard.) 
3. Laverna? gleditschivella Chamb. Larva burrows in the thorns. 
(Chambers, I. ¢.) . 
4. Helice pallidochrella Chamb. 
5. Agnippe biscolorella Chamb. The larve of these species no doubt 
feed in some way on this tree. A larva (of one of them?) feeds in 
the ‘‘ honey” inside the seed-pods. (Chambers, I. ¢.) 
*Several Tortricid larve occurred on the leaves of the horse-chestnut at Salem, 
Mass., August 20-27, of which the following isa brief description: Palereddish brown, 
curiously mottled with pale green, forming much interrupted, very irregularly-edged 
brown lines. Beneath, grass-green. Head greenish, irregularly speckled with brown. 
A dark green dorsal line. It spun a cocoon of silk, with very fine bits of leaves 
woven in. 
