REPORT OF THE SOCIETY 3d 



condary roots. The vines which suffer most are those growing on sandy lands. 

 When root feeding is severe, the vines show signs of weakening in the early 

 fall. The leaves dry out, turn red or brown, and the following spring only the 

 dead uprights and runners, bare of green foliage, remain. The feeding on the 

 foliage and fruit of the cranberry is negligible. Scammell (10) found in every 

 instance where the Fulgorid, Amphiscepa hivittata Say, was abundant that the 

 vines were in an unthrifty condition, due primarily to other causes, such as 

 attacks from the larvae of the Cranberry Rootworm beetle. Sawyer, (12) 

 (1920) found apples in an orchard near Sodus, N. Y., injured in a very peculiar 

 manner by the adults of R. picipes. This is the first record of apples being 

 injured which the author has found. The beetles confined their attack to the 

 fruit, especially Grimes' Golden. About 75 per cent of the apples were injured. 

 Ross, (7) (1916) published a photograph of a peculiar type of injury on Rhode 

 Island Greening apples from the Niagara district. He remarked: "The apples 

 were marked here and there with calloused blemishes, which varied in shape 

 from dots to long, irregular, serpentine areas." Ross forwarded the specimens 

 to Professors Caesar and Parrott, but they were unable to diagnose the trouble. 

 Professor Parrott replied in part as follows: "During the past year we have 

 discovered such injury upon apples, and specimens of peaches have been for- 

 warded to us injured in a manner quite similar. I spoke to Mr. Knight of 

 Cornell University regarding the damage and he intimates that such injuries 

 may attend the work of red bugs". However, basing a decision on the simila- 

 rity in design of the injury as shown in Ross's photograph in comparison with 

 that found by Sawyer at Sodus, N. Y., in 1920, and by the writer at Rougemont 

 Que., in 1924, it seems very probable that the injury was the work of the Cran- 

 berry Beetle. The author's attention was called to a peculiar injury to apples 

 in an orchard near Rougemont, Que., on July 12, 1924. The orchard contained 

 about 2,000 trees, mostly of the Duchess variety and the land was in sod. The- 

 injury was very extensive and was present on 50 per cent of the fruit and a large 

 proportion of the leaves. Shallow, irregular channels were eaten out of the 

 surface of the fruits, which sometimes comprise most of the apple (see fig. 1). 

 The leaves are also attacked and portions of them are eaten as illustrated in 

 figure 2. The immediate flora did not indicate th ' origin of the outbreak but 

 it is probal)le the beetles migrated from the boggy areas on the top of the moun- 

 tain, directly behind this orchard. 



Description of stages 



The beetles (fig. 3) are brown, l^ronzed and shining with the margins of the 

 wing covers greenish bronzed. The legs and antennae are reddish-yellow and 

 the under surface of the body greenish. They are three-sixteenths of an inch, 

 or slightly longer, and about one-half as wide. The following description of the 

 adult is taken from Blatcbley (3) and of the other stages from Scammell (10). 



