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Kellicott. D. S. .T-Jf/cria pictipcK (J. iV: U. <('anii(li:ui Ent.. liOiidon. 

 Outario. Vol. XIII. p. 7. 



Brief note. Common at Itnffalo, N. V.. on old pluiiis, doini; gravo injury 

 in some instances. Also on cherry. At Hastings ("enter, N. Y., found on 

 wild cherries. Adults in June and .Inly. 



Martex. John. .TJf/cria pictipcs, G. & H. <lHth Rept. State Ent. on 

 Noxious and Beneficial Insects of State of Illinois. (5th Ann. Rep. 

 Cyrus Thomas). Springfield, pp. 10(5, 109. 



T'nder bark of plum. Brief description of larva and pupa. 

 1882. (iROTE. ArciUSTUS Radci.iffe. .T.dciia iiicliitrs Grote & Rol)iusoii. < New- 

 check list of North American moths, [). 11!. 



.17. pictipcs and the synonymic inuaitaia Ily. Kdsvards are listed separately. 

 ( Not seen. ) 

 1884. Fkrnai.d, Ciiari-es II. St.ind. N.-itl. Ilislory ( Kin.ijsley I, liostoii, \'nl. II, 

 1). 4ti4. 



Mention; attacks plum trees and is similar in habits to the peach borer. 

 188!). Weed. Clarence M. IMuni Tree Borer {.Fgcria pictipef;). <.\merican 

 Naturalist, Phila.. Vol. XXIII, p. 1108, VI. XLIII. fig. 7. 

 Review of Kellicott (l.SOl). Figure. 

 18!)0. Beutenmuller. WiLi.iAii. .IRf/cria plctipes G. & R. <.\nnals N. Y. 

 Acad. Sciences, N. Y.. Vol. V (18S0-1891), p. 204. 

 Larva on plum : rare. 

 Smith. John Bernhard. »S'r.s/a iiictipcs Grt. & Roh. <Cat. of insects 

 found in New Jersey. (Final Rep. State Geologist, Vol. II), Trenton, 

 p. 280. 



Mentions the species as generally distributed, but not common. 



1891. Kellicott, D. S. The Plum Tree Borer (.Bf/er/a pictipcs). < .lournal 



Columbus (Ohio) Hort. Soc, Vol. V (1890). pp. 1(>. 19, IM. I, fig. 7. 



Brief notes. Sexes similar and like male peach borer. Plum favorite food : 

 plentiful on wild black and red cherry ; probably on cultivated cherry. 

 Larva mainly infests trunk and branches ; abundant at Columbus. Recom- 

 mends knife. 



Smith, John Bernhard. List Lep. Boreal America. Phila.. p. 20. 

 Listed as Sesia pictipes G. & R. 



1892. Beutenmuller, William. J^.pcrin iinixildta Hy. Edw. <Bul. American 



Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y.. Vol. IV. p. 172 (author's edit. N. Y.. Oct. 18, 

 1892). 



Listed as type in Henry Edwards's collection. One male, .\ndover, Mass. 



1892. Kellicott, D. S. Notes on the Jigeriklw of Central Oliio. <Canadian 



Ent., London, Ontario. Vol. XXIV, p. 40. 



Few lines. Quite abundant at Columbus. Ohio. Seriously injurins "ild 

 and cultivated cherry, as well as plum. 



1893. Beutenmlller, William. JEgcrla pictiprf< Grote & Robinson. <Bul. 



American Mus. Nat. Hist.. N. Y., Vol. V, p. 2."». 



Establishes iniisitata Hy. Edwards (ISSl) as a synonym of />icf//(c.s-. 

 Webster. Francis M.^rion. Insects reared from Black Knot. Ploirritihtia 

 inoihosa. < Ent. News., Phila., Vol, IV, p, 207. 

 Beared from the fungus on cherry and plum. 

 189G, BeutenmCller, William. .S'r.s/w pictipex (Hy. Edwards). <Bul. Ameri- 

 can Mus. Nat. Hist.. N. Y.. Vol. VIII, pp. 184-i;!.">. 



Wrong author given. Synonymy : secondary sexual characters. Larva on 

 plum, wild cherry, .luneberry, beach plum. Canada. Now Hampshire, Massa- 

 chusetts, New York, New .Jersey, I'ennsylvania, Ohio. Illinois, and California. 

 Webster, Franc is Marion. Bui. No. ('.8, Ohio Agric. E.\p. Sta., Columbus, 

 p. 2.5, 



Mention as " the peach borer, sscsiu pictipes." 



