C2G Eeport op Entomologists of the 



fly and its raagc^ot was given by Dr. Lintner* in 1882. He noticed 

 it first at Middleburgh, N. Y., mining the leaves of beet. From 

 material collected he reared the two species mentioned above and 

 Pegomyia vlcina. Of the latter he says : " This species was tlierefore 

 obtained in larger numbers from the rained beet leaves than either 

 of the other two." During the same year he noticed the work of 

 maggots in beet leaves at Bennington, Vt., and had injury to beet 

 leaves by maggots reported to him from Morrisville, IST, Y. In 

 his Second Report f Dr. Lintner quotes from a letter received 

 June 9, 188-i, from South Britain, Conn., in which the writer states 

 that an observing farmer of that place had noticed injury to beet 

 leaves by maggots for the past six or eight years, and, that he (the 

 writer) had seen similar larvae in the leaves of spinach. 



During tlie summer of 1886, injury to beet leaves by maggots 

 was reported from Middletown, Orange county, N. Y.;|: 



yiies reared in 1890 from maggots feeding in leaves of lambs- 

 quarters {Chenojiodium Albujn) at Ames, Iowa, by Prof. Gillette § 

 are possibly identical with the spinach-leaf maggot. 



In 1891, sugar-beet leaves were reported as injured, by maggots, 

 at Castorville and Watsonville, California, and some of the infested 

 leaves sent to the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture at Washington, 

 D. C. Mr. Koebele, a government field agent, was sent to investigate 

 the trouble. He obtained a large number of the maggots and 

 reared the flies. These all proved to be Pegoinyia vicina ; at least 

 Prof. Howard || does not mention that any other species was. reared. 



Lawrence Brunei 1" in his report as special agent for 1892, re- 

 fers to a dipterous Inrva mining the leaves of Chenopodlutn alhum 

 and suggests a possibility of its being the same as one of the species 

 of Anthomyia which Dr. Lintner found mining the leaves of the 

 beet. He says, " whether or not this is one of the species of Antho- 

 myia which Lintner found mining the leaves of beet in New York 

 I can not say, but from what I have observed * * * there is 

 danger of all the enemies of the Cheiiopodaceous plants attacking 

 the beet." 



* First Annual Rpport State Entomol igist of New York, pp. 181 and 209-211. 

 + Sei^oni1 Annual R-pprt Sta'e Entom Igist of New Yo-k, p. 4f>. 

 JThiid Annu il Rt^port, Stace Entomologist of New York p. 85. 

 § Insect Life, Vol. II, p. 2S1 : B Insect Life, Vol. VII, pp. 3r9";l81. 

 IT Bull. No. 30, Div. of Ent. p. 40. 



