14 
15, 
18 
19 
= 
. 
Hm Co bo 
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE SWEET GUM, ETC. 137 
Order COLEOPTERA. 
. Saperda bivittata Say. On hawthorn. 
Conotrachelus crategi Walsh. (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., ix, 1863, 
311.) 
3. Xylotrechus convergens Leconte. Bred from branch of an undeter- 
mined Crateus, locally known as Red Haw. Iowa. (Leconte, 
Trans. Amer. Ent. Soe. viii, xxiv.) 
7. Gaurotes cyanipennis Say. In spring on thorn blossoms and later in 
the season pairing and ovipositing on butternut. (Caulfield, 
Can. Ent. 1881, 60.) 
Order HEMIPTERA. 
. Aphis crategifolii Fitch. (On leaves of C. punctata. Fitch.) 
. Siphonophora crategi Monell. (July, Saint Louis, Monell.) 
SWEET GuM (Liquidambar styraciflua). 
Order LEPIDOPTERA. 
Actias luna (Linn.). 
Callosamia promethea (Drury). 
_Hacles imperialis Hiibner. (Smith-Abbott.) 
Phyllocnistis liquidambarisella Chamb. (Larva in a long, winding, 
linear mine in upper surface. Chambers, l. ¢.) 
Order COLEOPTERA. 
We have found Buprestid and longicorn borers in a dead sweet gum 
tree at Houston, Texas, in April. 
5. 
ho 
Mytilaspis pomicorticis Riley ? 
GUM TREE (Nyssa multiflora). 
. Darapsa cherilus (Cram.). (G. D. Hulst, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 
is 0.) 
PERSIMMON (Diospyros virginiana.) 
Order LEPIDOPTERA. 
. Orgyia leucographa Walker. (Larva described by French, Rep. Cura- 
tor 8. I. Normal Univ., 1880, 44.) 
. Aspidisca diospyriella Chamb. (Larva in a minute blotch mine, from 
which it cuts out a case in which it pupates. Chambers, l. c.) 
Order HEMIPTERA. 
Aphis diospyri Thomas. (8th Rep., Ill., 5.) 
CALIFORNIAN BAY OR LAUREL (Laurus). 
. Ptilinus basalis Leconte. (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soe. viii, xxiii.) 
bo 
. Micracis hirtella Leconte. 
