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not uncommon. In tlie National Museum collection there are also 

 specimens from Maiden and one other locality in Massachusetts, and 

 Mr. M. L. Linell informs me that he has taken a specimen near Brook- 

 lyn, L. I. 



It will be noticed that although the species ^yas known to have been 

 introduced at least ten years ago, that it is still limited to districts near 

 the sea shore. Like other allied wingless species that have been intro- 

 duced from Europe it will probably not extend its range much farther 

 south, but will move gradually westward from the points where it has 

 now established itself. It it a common European species and is known 

 to feed on a great variety of deciduous trees and shrubs, and though it 

 is impossible to forecaste the future it is not probable that it will ever be 

 particularly injurious to cultivated plants in this country. — F. H. C. 



DAMAGE TO CLOVBK IN MICHIGAN. 



Two of the most important insect enemies of the clover plant, both 

 importations from Europe, have reached the State of Michigan on their 

 westward march from the Atlantic coast, and during the past two sea- 

 sons have done a great deal of damage. These are the clover-leaf 

 weevil, Fhytonomus piinctatus, and the clover root-borer, HylasUnus 

 ohscurus Marsh. From an article in the Michigan Farmer for Septem- 

 ber 8, 1894, we learn that during the past two years the combination 

 of the attacks of these two insects with the protracted drought has 

 resulted in the most general failure of the clover crop in Michigan that 

 has ever been known. 



A NEW COTTON INSECT IN TEXAS. 



We have recently received from San Diego County, Tex., specimens 

 of cotton bolls damaged hy Anthononius (jrandis Boh. This insect was 

 sent to Prof. Riley more than ten years ago by Dr. Edward Palmer 

 (see Annual Report Department of Agriculture, 1885, p. 279), who 

 found it feeding in dwarf cotton bolls in northern Mexico, but it has 

 never been reported with certainty from the United States until the 

 present summer. Dr. W. G. Dietz, in his revision of the Anthonomini 

 (Tr. Am. Ent. See, vol. xviii, p. 205), has, indeed, reported the species 

 from Texas on the basis of a specimen in Mr. Schwarz's collection 

 bearing a Texas label, but Mr. Schwarz informs us that he hag 

 recently learned that the specimen referred to was from Mexico and 

 came indirectly from the same source as did Prof. Riley's specimens. 

 The larva lives within the bolls and is full grown before the end of 

 September. The bolls which Avere sent in October contained adult 

 larva?, pupjie, and full-grown insects as well. The life- history of the 

 insect is not fully known, and we can not at the present time suggest 

 any competent remedy. It will possibly prove a very important enemy 

 to the cotton crop in the southwest. A more uetailed account will be 

 published in the next number of Insect Life. 



