‘HERBARIUM PEST——-THE APPLE MAGGOT. caf 
The larva above mentioned was that of a species of saw-fly (family 
Tenthredinide). We sent for a number of additional specimens in order 
to endeavor to obtain the mature insect, for we did not recall any record 
of injury to wheat by a Tenthredinid in this country. Curtis gives an 
account of one in Europe, the description of which agrees very closely 
with this larva, but from his account it would seem to have come from 
some neighboring woods and not to have been naturally feeding on 
wheat. As many of the saw-fly larvee, when abundant, have a habit of 
wandering from their original food-plants, such may have been the case 
in this instance. We endeavored to get positive evidence of its wheat- 
feeding habits, but failed, and the larve received from Mr. Hostetter 
died before transforming, so that the species was not even ascertained. 
The same larva was reported by W. 8S. Chamberlain, Secretary of the 
State Board of Agriculture, as occurring on wheat at Columbus, Ohio. | 
TINEID MOTHS IN DRIED FUNGI. 
Please allow me the privilege of sending you a specimen of my col- 
lection of fungi and their foe, and, if not too much trouble, please tell 
me the name of the insect. These fungi were put in a strong paper 
box and tightly wrapped in three folds of paper and tied with twine to 
prevent the moths from depositing on them their eggs. It seems that 
the larvee bored through paper and box and gained access to them. 
Corrosive sublimate, &c., does not appear to protect them unless satu- 
rated. 'The only way I have succeeded in saving specimens is to put 
them in tight boxes with a sponge saturated with chloroform. 
I sent you specimens once before. You wrote me you thought them 
new. Your final answer is given in American Entomologist, vol. 3, p. 
297—Cis fuscipes Mell. Evidently a mistake has in some way hap- 
pened.—[J. J. Brown, M. D., Sheboygun, Wis., May 15, 1883. 
[The moth proved to be Scardia cloacella, Haw., allied to the common 
grain moth. There was no mistake about Cis fuscipes. Both species 
were received, and both infest the fungi. | 
THE APPLE MAGGOT. 
* * * ‘In regard to the apple maggot, I can say that with us it is 
a pest equal if not exceeding the Codlin moth (or its larva). It attaeks 
both early and winter fruit, greenings and Baldwins seeming to be its 
choice, sometimes, yes often, completely honey-combing the fruit. We 
have fed out quantities of apples infested with this maggot.—{S. E. 
FRISBIE, Milford, Conn., March 15, 1883. 
Your very obliging letter, acknowledging receipt of the Dynastes pupa, 
should have been noticed sooner, but I wanted to find some memoran- 
