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EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE. 
GRAPTODERA CARINATA INJURING FUCHSIAS. 
By this mail I send insects which I have found eating the leaves of fuchsia much 
in the same way as the potato bug eats the leaves of potato vines. Having never 
seen anything of the kind before, I would like to know whether they are common or 
not. They do not seem to eat the leaves of any other plant, so far as I have been able 
to observe. Hoping that I am not trespassing too much on your valuable time.— 
{Edwin Lonsdale, Germantown, Pa., September 1, 1882. 
ReEpLy.—Your favor of yesterday and the accompanying box to hand. The insect 
that troubles your fuchsias is a flea-beetle, Graptodera carinata (family Chrysomelide). 
You will find a short account of this insect on the inclosed slip from the American 
Entomologist, Vol. III, p. 200. 
THE ARMY WORM AT SARATOGA. 
Inclosed please find the best specimen I could find of the worm or caterpillar which 
destroyed 25 acres of meadow in the town of Saratoga Springs. I would like to know 
ifthey are the genuine Army Worm. The worm is about one inch long or longer, black, 
with two stripes the length of the body. Please have a report sent to me.—[F. D. 
Curtis, Charlton, N. Y., August 21, 1882. 
REPLY.— * * * The worms enclosed in this letter, although badly shriveled 
and almost unrecognizable, seem without doubt to be genuine Army Worms. The 
Department is about to publish a special bulletin on this insect, an abstract of which 
is contained in the forthcoming annual report. The annual report for 1879 also con- 
tains a summary of its natural history, and a brief review of the known remedies. 
THE ARMY WORM IN LOUISIANA, 
In relation to the specimen of the Cut-worm that has done so much damage here, I 
send you a good collection, which was easy to find. The early Summer Flint that I 
planted the 9th of July as a trial to see if it would have time to mature in the richest 
soil of the Red River Valley. The Cut-worms have attacked it since a week, but they 
are not as numerous asin May and June. These worms attack the corn in the root, 
and others conceal themselves in the heart of the plant, which it destroys, following 
to the root. It attacks the cotton when very young—about fifteen days old—which 
in some places it has entirely destroyed. I hope this will give entire satisfaction.— 
[W. J. Conder, Marksville, La., August 8, 1882. 
[The specimens were genuine Northern Army Worms (Leucania unipuncta). ] 
AGROTIS INERMIS AND HALTICA PALLICORNIS INJURING SMILAX, 
Accompanying this I send a worm which I have found eating my smilax. It was 
first found in day-time feeding, five or six plants being killed before my attention was 
attracted by its depredations. I noticed about the 3d instant that about 400 plants 
had all the young leaves and shoots entirely eaten; on looking for a cause I could see 
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