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less strawberry at C(Biir d'Alene, Idaho. This is a rather remarkable 

 fact, uot ouly because the species of the family Biiprestid;ie, to which 

 this flat-headed borer belongs, have hitherto beeu found boring under 

 the bark of hardwood trees, but because the species belongs to an 

 undescribed species of ChrysoDothris, the same genus to which the Flat- 

 beaded Ai)pletree Borer belongs, and one which has been recently 

 monographed. In company with it there was an undescribed Lepidop- 

 terous crown-borer. 



A saw-fly larva {Janus faviventr is Fitch) has been found in the stems 

 of Currant at Adrian, Mich. 



A case-bearer belonging to the genus Coleophora, also undescribed, 

 was reported on orange trees from Los Angeles, Cal. 



An undescribed mite of the genus Tetranychus, the same genus to 

 which the Eed Spider belongs, has been found on lemon trees at Los 

 Angeles, Cal., as also an undescribed Thrips on orange trees in the 

 same locality. 



A leaf-hopper {Tijphlocyha ros(v) has been very numerous on tlie 

 leaves of apple trees at Burlington, Vt. 



A canker-worm belonging to the genus Anisopteryx was reported on 

 Plum from Elliott, Cal. 



A snout-beetle {Cercojyeus chri/sorhwtis) belonging to the same family 

 as Fuller's Rose-beetle, and supposed to be the Grape Curculio, was 

 found upon grapevine at Paris, Tex. 



A currant-stem hover {OhereaoceUi(ta)hafi been found breeding in the 

 twigs of Peach in Harris County, Tex. 



A new span-worm has beeu found feeding on the bark and young 

 twigs of plum trees and doing considerable damage, at Mitchell, Ind. 



A new case-bearer of the genus Coleophora was found on the buds 

 of Blackberry in parts of Indiana. 



A beetle larva, belonging to the family Tenebrionidiie and somewhat 

 resembling a wire- worm, was very injurious to the roots of ])eacli and 

 plum trees in southern California- 



An undescribed bug belonging to the genus Trapezonotus, has beeu 

 very injurious to fruit trees in Lead County, Idaho, l)y sapping them. 



A beetle {Pti/chodes frivitfafus) is reported as girdling the twigs of 

 fig trees at Xew Orleans, La. 



Another snout-beetle {Thricolepis inornata) was found injuring the 

 foliage of young prune trees in Salem, Oregon. 



A plant-louse, undeterminable, was badly infesting orange leaves at 

 Santa Barbara, Cal. 



A larva belonging to the same genus (Heliothis) as the Boll Worm 

 was doing great damage to the leaves of apple and quince trees at 

 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. 



An undetermined species of Lygus, one of the true bugs, was injur- 

 ing young pears at South Byron, X. Y. 



Fiflia Jonciipes and F. murina, two leaf-feeding beetles, were injurious 

 to the leaves of grapevine at Yiuelaud. Ark. 



