48 DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECTS AND INSECTICIDES. 



1897. Beutenmuller. William. Sesia pictipes (G. »& R.). <Bul. Aiiier. Mus. 



Nat. -Hist.. N. Y., Vol. IX, p. 220. 



Larva under bark of plum, cherry, beach ijlum, chestnut, and juneberry, 

 usually some distance up from base of tree : also on black knot fungus. 



1898. LuGGEE, Otto. The Plum Tree Borer {Sesia pictipes G. & R.). <Bul. No. 



61, Minnesota Agric. Exp. Sta., St. Paul, p. 119, flg. 63. 

 Same as Lugger, 1899. 



1899. Idem. The Plum Tree Borer {Sesia pictipes G. & R.). <4th Ann. Rep. 



Ent. State Exp. Sta. Univ. Minnesota f. 1898, St. Paul, p. (55, tig. (53. 



Short summary account. Apparently increasing. Larva feeds mainly in 



trunks and branches of wild and cultivated plums and cherries. Figure of 

 adult. Recommends use of pruning knife. 



1900. Beutenmuller, William. Synopsis of food-habits of the larvje of the 



Sesiidie. <Canadian Ent, London, Ontario. Vol. XXXII, pp. 301, .302. 

 Sesia larvae sometimes found in borings made by other insects. Under 

 bark of cherry, plum, and juneberry, some distance from base of tree, or in 

 the limbs. 



Smith, John Bernhaed. Sesia pictipes (G. & R.). <Insects of New 

 Jersey. Supplement 27th Ann. Rep. State Bd. Agric., 1899, Trenton, p. 

 472. 



Listed from Newark, Staten Island, Philadelphia, etc. Adults in June and 

 July. Larva on plum, cherry, beach plum, and sometimes peach, but rarely 

 injurious. 



1901. Beutenmuller, William. Sesia pictipes (G. & R. ). < Monograph Sesii- 



dse of America, North of Mexico. Memoirs American Mus. Nat. Hist, 

 N. Y. Vol. I, pp. 226, 229, 231, 291-292, PI. XXXI, fig. 10. 



Systematic treatment, with synonymy, distribution, description, and food 

 plants ; colored figure of female. Moths out June and July. Time of adult 

 emergence (p. 226), synoptic table of larvte of the Sesiidae (p. 229), and 

 secondary sexual characters of pupae (p. 231). 



1902. Dyar, Harrison Gray. Sesia pictipes Grote & Robinson. <List of North 



American Lepidoptera. Bui. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., Washington, p. 369. 

 Distribution given as " U. S." 



1903. Holland, W. J. Synantliedon pictipes Grote & Robinson. <The Moth 



Book, N. Y., p. 386, PI. XL VI, fig. 24. 



Brief account. Synonymy and food plants. Adults on wing in June and 

 July. Good colored figure of female. 



Washburn, F. L. Plum Ti-ee Borer. <Bul. No. 84, Minnesota Agric. 

 Exp. Sta., St. Anthony Park, p. 82, fig. 70. Ibid., Eighth Ann. Rep. 

 State Ent. Minnesota f. 1903. 



Sesia. Listed as injurious to plums, with figure of male. Cut out and 

 burn infested parts. Lugger's (1899) figure. 



190.5. Kellogg. Vernon Li'MAN. American Insects, N. Y., fig. 558 (p. 392). . 



Figures male. Sesia. 

 1906. BEUTENMtJLLER, WiLLiAM. Scsiu pictipcs Gr. & Rob. <Insects affecting 

 park and woodland trees (Felt), Memoir No. 8, Vol. II, N. Y. State 

 Museum, Albany, pp. 428, 453-454. 



Brief account based mainly on Bailey (1879). Description of adults. 

 Quaintance, Altus Lacy. The Lesser Peach Borer {A-^geria pictipes G. & 

 R.). Yearbk. U. S. Dept Agric. f. 1905, Washington, p. .335, IM. XXXI, 

 figs. 3 and 4. 



Brief account. Found al>undant on old or diseased peach trees in Georgia 

 and Maryland during 1905. Figures both sexes aud pupal cast in cocoon. 

 Recommends digging out. 



Starnes, Hugh M. Bui. No. 73, (ieorgia Exp. Sta., p. 154. 



Mentioned as the "wild cherry borer (Synanthedoii pictipes)" and as being 

 often mistakeu for male peach borer. 



