28 B. C. ENTOMOLOGICAL PROCEEDINGS, 191L 



"Icerya purchasi." Cottony Cushion Scale, on grape stock, and 

 "Pulvinaria inniiiiuiiibilh." on several ornamental trees and shrubs, are' 

 also on record. 



"Mealy Bugs": " Dactylofiius destructor" and "Dactylopius Utng'i- 

 y?//.f/' imported on ornamental shrubs and palms, often very numerous 

 on azalea from Japan, and pineapple from Hawaiian Islands. 



"Aphis": "Schizo/ieurri lanigera," Woolly Aphis, on root and branch 

 of apple and crab trees from England, United States, France, Holland, 

 Belgium and Eastern Canada. 



"Aphis pcrsiau-niger," Black Peach Aphis, on peach root from the 

 United States. 



Green Aphis, "Aphis mali," eggs on apple-trees from England, 

 Europe, United States and Eastern Canada. 



Plum Aphis, " Hyaloptcriis priini." eggs on plum-trees from United 

 States and Eastern Canada. 



Cherry Aphis, " Myziis ccrasi," eggs on cherry-trees from the United 

 States. 



Buffalo Tree Hopper, "Cerasa bubalus" Family "i\lt>nbraiidae," 

 eggs inserted in bark of apple-trees from United States. 



Order-Lepidoptera. 



The insulated egg masses of the Tent Caterpillar (Clisiocainpa sp.) 

 have been found on the twigs and small limbs of many varieties of 

 nursery stock, both fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs, imported 

 from England, France, Holland, United States and Eastern Canada. 

 On similar stock the cocoons of the Fall Web Worm have also been 

 found, also the egg masses of the Tussock Moth, "Orgyia sp." and the 

 Fall Canker Worm, " Alsophila poinetaria." 



Of far more economic importance is the "Sanninoidca cxitiosa." the 

 larva of which has often been found embedded in its own excavation in 

 the roots of peach, plum, apricot, almond and cherry trees, and com- 

 monly called the Peach Root Borer. It has been imported on nursery 

 stock from United States and Eastern Canada, and for which a large 

 quantity of stock has been condemned and destroyed. 



Another insect causing tremendous loss to the peach, apricot and 

 plum growers in California and Oreogn is the Twig Borer, "Anarsia 

 lineatclla." the larvae of which have been found in stone-fruit trees im- 

 ported from California and Oregon. 



The cases of the Bag Worm, "Thyridopti-ryx cphfiinriujnrinis," on 

 ornamental trees from United States and Japan. 



The nests of the Brown Tail Moth, "Euproctis chrysorrhea." wiiich 

 has proven such a scourge in some of the Eastern States, have been im- 



